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Discussion in 'E-mail Discussion' started by nitaish, Mar 6, 2010.

  1. nitaish

    nitaish Well-Known Member
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    I can see a lot of spam emails being sent out from one of our servers, but I am not able to find out the email user which is being used for SMTP authentication. From the headers of the spam emails, I can understand that one of my customers' computer is infected with virus and is sending out spam emails. I can see the IPs of a local ISP in the header, however, blocking the IP does not work as it seems he does not have a static IP as the IP changes everytime. What is the best way to find out which email account is being used for sending spam from the server?
     
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    You will have to check the header ID in your email logs and check for the email address. You can get the email logs from the /var/log/exim_mainlog. You can check the particular header ID using the below mentioned command:

    cat /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep header ID.
     
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    I could find the domain from which the spamming was happening by enabling Extended logging in cpanel.
     
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