Need Adivce On How To Locate SPAMMERS On Our System

nitromax

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Feb 12, 2002
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Sorry for the newbie questions... But how can you tell who is spamming on a Linux system? I know you can you look in the WHM & Email & View Email Stats, but how do you read it? Does any of the following look bad? For example:

Exim statistics from 2002-09-29 22:16:46 to 2002-10-01 00:24:52

Grand total summary
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At least one address
TOTAL Volume Messages Hosts Delayed Failed
Received 171MB 27437 2547 16915 61.7% 809 2.9%
Delivered 177MB 13261 736

Deliveries by transport
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Volume Messages
**bypassed** 1093KB 192
list_transport_fhca 2229KB 64
local_delivery 3887KB 422
remote_smtp 53MB 5928
virtual_address_pipe 1258KB 227
virtual_userdelivery 116MB 6428


Top 50 sending hosts by message count
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4573 22258508 local
2661 3199455 nickelback.highspeedweb.net


Top 50 local senders by message count
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4246 18607602 root
94 2518711 fhca
55 199761 nobody

Top 50 local senders by volume
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4246 18607602 root
94 2518711 fhca
1 725062 arenaco
55 199761 nobody
27 42649 digital