RE: [cobalt-users] severe problem

["Peter Masloch" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

First place to look is in /var/log/maillog there you should see from
where the mail is coming. Probably somebody is using your mail server as
relay. Check your mail setup.
Peter
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Randy Davis
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:05 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] severe problem
> 
> 
> Any help would greatly be appreciated!  We have an emergency 
> problem that I would appreciate any assistance in fixing.  A 
> user account on the system is the user associated with a mass 
> amount of spam email going out.  He isn't even logged into 
> the system and I know for a fact he didn't sent this stuff 
> out.  I've tried to clear the mail queue and shut down 
> sendmail for a while, but then all of a sudden the emails 
> will be back filling up the queue again.  I've got ssh 
> running on the box and the account they used doesn't have any 
> admin priv.  Any advice or suggestions????
> 
> Ciao
> Randy
> 
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