James, yes, those are all messages waiting to be sent. Just delete all the files (better to stop James before doing that).
Have a look at the date/time: are thy <= to the moment you did set up SMTPAuth? if yes, it is likely that you have been exploited as an open relay, otherwise it sounds something to investigate further. Ciao, Vincenzo > -----Original Message----- > From: James Kearney(hotmail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: gioved� 6 novembre 2003 16.43 > To: James Users List > Subject: Re: Lots of unauthorized emails > > > Vincenzo, > > JAMES_ROOT/apps/james/var/mail/outgoing directory is full of > files, 8864 to > be exact. > Is this mail that is waiting to be sent, and can i just delete all the > files? > After doing this I will change the administrators account and all users > account passwords again - hopefully this will stop the abuse. > > thanks v much > > james. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "James Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:24 PM > Subject: RE: Lots of unauthorized emails > > > Have a look at the > JAMES_ROOT/apps/james/var/mail/outgoing directory > if using file based repositories, or > select * from spool where repository_name='outgoing' > if using jdbc based repositories. > > Vincenzo > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Kearney(hotmail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: gioved� 6 novembre 2003 16.05 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Lots of unauthorized emails > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am running the james server on jameskearney.com and I am > getting lots of > > emails saying "could not send email to xxx" where xxx is some > > address that I > > have never heard of - so obviously someone unauthorized is using > > my server. > > > > I have smtp auth set up - so I don't believe that it is the > case that the > > smtp server is an open relay. > > > > I also have changed the passwords on the smtp accounts - this > > also does not > > help. > > > > The only possibility is that all of these messages were spooled > > in the short > > time before I got smtp auth set up - is there anyway I can check what is > > waiting to be sent, and remove it if it is not appropriate. > > > > Failing this I am unsure as to how these nasty people are using > > my server to > > send their junk! > > > > Please help, I don't want to add to the spam problem! > > > > thanks very much > > > > james kearney > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
