This might be construed as slighly off-topic and if so, my apology.
I discovered yesterday that we couldn't send email to one of our clients
(very large client) and I called Ipswitch support (they were very
helpful BTW) to try and resolve the problem. Well, about 2 minutes into
After all that, I *do* have a question. How can I tell by looking at my
log file that my server was indeed used for relay spamming?
big picture:
log file could be x times bigger that previous daily averages.
close-up:
In SMTPD lines, look for a connect from an non-trusted ip, with no SMTP
I of course fixed that problem, and now I needed to find out where these
databases exist (the support guy couldn't help me here). After some
searching I found a site (http://mail-abuse.org/referred.html) that spells
out exactly what I needed to do to verify that our domain was in the
Here's a nice list from Scott Perry's site:
http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm
terry fritts
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After all that, I *do* have a question. How can I tell by looking at
my
