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Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3 - Baffling SPAM Message Relay



On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Jay Summers wrote:

> > Hello All;
> > Our server is being used to relay Spam messages to hundreds of addresses.

> > The emails appear to be originating from=admin
> > I also see relay=admin@localhost

as a PS here, email from localhost isn't actually 'relayed' as such, it's
originating inside the machine, either a cgi script, or a mailing list...

You should be thinking about reinstalling here i think, or else plan to do
a heck of a lot of serching and poking around to find the backdoor mailer

gsh