This weekend one of the domains at our imail server has been hijacked by
spammers sending bulk mail - the smtp setting was allow anyone to send so I
guess it was just a problem waiting to happen. I have no idea how much mail
is being sent but since yesterday evening it's been taking about half an
hour to pick up a single message from the server, and it took 1 hour to try
to log on with PC Anywhere before it timed out and gave up. So obviously
there is a lot of mail traffic going through.
Since this is a long weekend in Canada we don't have access to tech support
and to get someone to reboot our server at its parked location. Normally we
administer the server using PC Anywhere, but due to the machine being low on
resources because of the massive bog down of the smtp services PC Anywhere
is not responding.
I am however able to access the server through ftp and get file access to
the imail directory and the winnt directory.
Is there a particular file I could rename/disable when connected through ftp
in order to shut down the smtp service so that I can take control of the
server again?
I have tried to delete pending outgoing messages from the imail/spool
directory but it says I don't have access to do so - even though I am logged
on as administrator through ftpvoyager.
Thanks,
Tor
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