Rod, I appreciate your fast response to my query. I don't host my own site, but will contact the support people and ask them about the spamming ploy. Thanks for giving me more insight into the problem. I hope your solution solves yours.
Paul Sumner >Hi Paul, > >I had this happen on my site as well using my formail.cgi script, it turned >out it was a spammer trying to send main through my mail server, to the >point where I couldn't get any legitimate mail from my server. I would >find a way of blocking the ip address from the server because he could >potentially tie up your server. > >Rod > >At 10:53 21/11/2002 -0000, you wrote: >>In recent daily raw logs I now see an occasional entry: >> >>post/cgi-bin/formmail.pl >>OR >>post/cgi-bin/formmail.cgi >> >>The "visitors" (whose IP's are given) never go to an actual web page from >>there, and a few of them repeat the command. >> >>Are these attempts to hack into my mailbox? If so, how would I know if >>they were sucessful? A matter of concern? What should I do? >> >>Thank you. >>Paul Sumner +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
