Apparently I cannot send mail with my postfix on localhost to the network.
Previously this was working fine and I don't see any changes made to my postfix configuration files. But in the last few days things have not gone well here. Firstly, my system was hijacked and used as an open proxy to send megabytes of spam to the network. :(. My isp filtered my outgoing smtp port and that is when I began to see a few errors in my /var/log/mail/errors file (unknown service tcp/smtp). After finding out about this, I tried to post to the list and I don't think any of my messages went out. I had to go into /var/spool/postfix and start deleting a whole bunch of files in deferred - there was at one time seven megabytes of messages trying to get out! And those were the invalid addresses. I wonder how spammers survive -- I guess they just exploit other systems to do the dirty work :(. At the moment, My box is better secured thanks to portsentry (why isn't this program in mandrake???? I could not urpmi it, but I did find it through rpmfind.org and the source rpm built and installed fine. I tried running shorewall but got nowhere. I don't know how to edit shorewall files and I don't want something that won't even let me ping my gateway when installed. iptables is running because of portsentry but I don't see anything that is specifically tied to port 25. And in atcp mode it's supposed to ignore certain standard ports anyway. It seems like a catch 22 - if I disable the filters perhaps outbound smtp will work, but if I do that, I'm back to where I was before, and people will start targeting my box again. I counted 72 attempts of portscanning done in less than six hours, and 10 minutes after I restarted httpd I got spurious gets in my apache log files. I think this is how they got into my box in the first place, since I don't do much if any web stuff, and my log files are tiny - the other day they were over a megabyte. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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