Re: [cobalt-users] How am I getting spammed?

[Marco Baurdoux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Step,

This is not a mail header,
please put in a copy of your mailheader source,
in the mean time take a glance at your /var/log/maillog file, to see if the
spamming is originated from your machine or not.

This should be a good starting point.

le 27.9.2001 12:18, Step Firth à step@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :

> Hi.
> 
> I have a concern over the increasing amount of spam me and my clients seem
> to be getting, and some of them come through as below, looking as if there
> is a mailing list running on my Raq. There are no authorised list on the
> machine at all, so could it just be a tricky alias, or is someone hacked in
> and using my sendmail.
> 
> Any advice or comments on what is happening, and how I can stop it (whether
> is is coming from our machine or not) would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> This is a header from one such dodgy spam.
> 
> 
> From: MAGIC-WEB <magic_web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:43:58 +0100
> To: MAGIC-WEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: SEXSITE NO.1 .. MEGAWEB-SEX !
> 
> Dear Ladies & Gentlemen,
> 
> etc...
> 
> Obviously the my host and my domain are indeed my real host and domain.
> 
> 
> Cheers for any assistance.
> 
> Step
> 
> 
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it's just very picky about who its friends are !!!

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