>>   Which email server do you guys use?

We use Visnetic Email server.  It may be end of life but still works pretty
flawlessly.

>> all of a sudden it sent out 2 million emails from one of my accounts.

I would suspect that they guessed or "hacked" your account password to
authenticate unless you are only relying on SSL to allow relaying.  

We get this all the time where over a period of months we see attempts to
guess passwords on SMTP accounts then the low entropy passwords gets guessed
and they authenticate and attempt to send out mail.  Most of the time we
catch it because we only allow local domains and accounts to forward email
thru our outbound server.

We have had to increase password complexity and length on all accounts to 12
characters to prevent further attacks.


Dennis Powers
UXB Internet - A website Design and Hosting Company
P.O. Box 6028, Wolcott, CT 06716 - T:203-879-2844
W: http://www.uxbinternet.com
W: http://www.ctbusinesslist.com




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