Re: [cobalt-users] STMP Relay Spam?

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:17 AM
>Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] STMP Relay Spam?
>
>
>> > I am getting mail returned from two domains hosted on my
>> > account, I have not set them up correctly since I am still
>> > designing thier sites but some one is trying to, below is the
>> > partial message:
>>
>> It's a good chance someone has just forged dareedplumbing.com as the
>> reply address for some spam.
>> --
>> Dan Kriwitsky
>> 
>>
>
>Hi Dan, I am very new to this. below is the properties of the email being
>returned. Can anyone tell from the info below, if my system is actually
>sending it or if someone has just used one of the users names on my cobalt
>in their reply address?




the problem isn't the site - or the way you have it setup on the server - *THIS* is the problem:

http://www.dareedplumbing.com/cgi-bin/formmail.pl

Remove formmail.pl and your problem will go away.

Search Google.com for formmail problems and you'll find out why.

Visit Monkeys.com for a replacement, or use just about ANYTHING except Matt Wright's formmail.pl (sorry Matt - but you need to kill this script off - it's more trouble than it's worth).

regards

Greg

ps - as hosts - we remove this script on sight - no warning, but we will help provide an alternative!
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