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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 ;) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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