do you run squid?
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 06:23 am, David E. Fox wrote:
> hey - help!
>
> it's seemingly apparent that in the last week or two there seems to
> be an increasing number of mails of a dubious nature being sent to
> a large number of bogus addresses by yours truly :(.
>
> I'm not a spammer but it seems that my mailing system (postfix) is
> misconfigured -- but I was under the impression that postfix was
> relay-proof. I have seen evidence though of some chinese sites
> "masquerading" as m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com, probably forging headers
> somewhere along the line. It further seems that mail is injected here
> and then attempts are made to send the sh*t off to other places.
>
> I have not gotten any complaints but as of now 22:30pm pst 11/4 there is
> approximately 2.3 megabytes' worth of mail trying to get out.
>
> 1) I want to simply remove these messages. How do I do this? I have not yet
> come across a queue removal program - like lprm - for mail. Can (or should)
> I just delete all the files underneath
> /var/spool/postfix/{defer,etc,deferred, etc} - i.e, keep the directory
> structure intact but do somehting like
>
> find /var/spool/postfix -type f | xargs grep rm
>
> Is that dangerous?
>
> Secondly, using a fairly stock configuration for postfix, is there some-
> thing I've missed? I can attach my configuration if needed. I have
> basically kept the same one intact since I initially reinstalled 9.0
> and upgraded to various levels of cooker over the past few months.
>
> HELP ;)
>
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> David E. Fox Thanks for letting me
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