Thanks for the reply on this. I just found the header info. It does appear that he sent it from a remailer. Thanks again, Sorry for the stupidity.
Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from rly-ip02.mx.aol.com ([152.163.225.160]) by earth.rychlik.ws with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16Ejkt-0003kp-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:15:27 -0600 Received: from logs-tn.proxy.aol.com (logs-tn.proxy.aol.com [152.163.207.5]) by rly-ip02.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/AOL-5.0.0) with ESMTP id XAA01462 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:06:10 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from AC952543.ipt.aol.com (AC952543.ipt.aol.com [172.149.37.67]) by logs-tn.proxy.aol.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id fBE430X219986 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:03:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 23:03:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Authentication-Warning: logs-tn.proxy.aol.com: AC952543.ipt.aol.com [172.149.37.67] didn't use HELO protocol X-Apparently-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: Status: hehe this wasnt so hard either, i guess that makes me a pimp? lmfao, anyway learn to call a brotha damnit! and dont act like you dont know who dis be! foo! hehehe later.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Heilman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Rychlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:33 PM Subject: Re: Exim mail > Daniel Rychlik wrote: > > > How do I stop this from happening. Apparently my bud telented to port 25 > > and somehow sent mail from my root account. Any suggestions, white papers > > or links? Id would like to block the telnet application all together, but I > > dont think thats possible. > > He didn't use your root account, he used the nature of SMTP to trick > you. http://rfc821.x42.com/ And no, you can't block telnet, unless > you choose to not run a mail server at all. > > -- > Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ > "Paranoia is a disease unto itself, and may I add, the person standing > next to you may not be who they appear to be, so take precaution." > -Sathington Willoughby -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]