Re: [cobalt-users] Blocking Spam

[Colin Smith <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Chris Bledsoe wrote:

> We are having problems with spammers on our box.
> 
> I need 2 things... First I need to know how to track down
> what user sent the spam (I have attached SpamCop information below)... And
> what you all would suggest / use to stop spam. I have Pop-Before-SMTP
> installed but I believe a local user is doing the spam.
> 
> Also, is there a way to only allow e-mail to be "From:" a user on the box?

telnet in to the box and look at the /var/log/maillog.* files. The maillog
file is the current one.  maillog.1 is the last file and they get older
with higher numbers. 

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