URGENTLY NEED HELP - Postfix and spam
I've just noticed in the last two days something has gone horribly wrong with Postfix on SuSE 8.1. My machine has got a massive queue of emails that it is attempting to send to AOL customers that I never sent myself. AOL is refusing connections, so these emails are sitting in the queue. I've just quickly done a few mail relay tests and all passed. Now I'm not sure if it is due to the Spammer being on the same ISP as myself or due to some other problem with Postfix. His ip address is very close to mine Spammer = 81.99.191.26 & Mine = 81.99.191.*** I had configured it to "Soft Bounce" emails as I've been testing a few things. How can I remove all these emails from the queue, as it is sending hundreds of requests to AOLs mail servers, and this is probably not a good idea. I've disabled postfix with rcpostfix stop, but what do I do now. Please help Adam
Adam Leach wrote:
I've just noticed in the last two days something has gone horribly wrong with Postfix on SuSE 8.1.
My machine has got a massive queue of emails that it is attempting to send to AOL customers that I never sent myself. AOL is refusing connections, so these emails are sitting in the queue.
I've just quickly done a few mail relay tests and all passed.
Now I'm not sure if it is due to the Spammer being on the same ISP as myself or due to some other problem with Postfix. His ip address is very close to mine Spammer = 81.99.191.26 & Mine = 81.99.191.***
I had configured it to "Soft Bounce" emails as I've been testing a few things.
How can I remove all these emails from the queue, as it is sending hundreds of requests to AOLs mail servers, and this is probably not a good idea.
I've disabled postfix with rcpostfix stop, but what do I do now.
You can use 'postsuper -d queue_id' to delete a specific entry or 'postsuper -d ALL queuename' as in 'postsuper -d ALL deferred' to delete all messages in the deferred queue. The problem is probably a Windows virus that masquerades the 'From' of the messages to be from you but just to be safe, head to http://www.abuse.net/relay.html and test your setup for open relay. Avi
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 21:21, Adam Leach wrote:
How can I remove all these emails from the queue, as it is sending hundreds of requests to AOLs mail servers, and this is probably not a good idea.
Take a look at the postcat command. -- del suse-linux-e
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 21:21, Adam Leach wrote:
How can I remove all these emails from the queue, as it is sending hundreds of requests to AOLs mail servers, and this is probably not a good idea.
Sorry not postcat postsuper -- del suse-linux-e
Hi, Is it possible that your Postfix *believe* that the spammer is a trusted host. Revise mynetworks and mynetworks_style. The output list of '-postconf -n' may help. Guillermo. On Friday 26 September 2003 22:21, Adam Leach wrote:
I've just noticed in the last two days something has gone horribly wrong with Postfix on SuSE 8.1.
My machine has got a massive queue of emails that it is attempting to send to AOL customers that I never sent myself. AOL is refusing connections, so these emails are sitting in the queue.
I've just quickly done a few mail relay tests and all passed.
Now I'm not sure if it is due to the Spammer being on the same ISP as myself or due to some other problem with Postfix. His ip address is very close to mine Spammer = 81.99.191.26 & Mine = 81.99.191.***
-- Guillermo Ballester Valor Linux user #117181. See http://counter.li.org/ gbv@oxixares.com http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/ Ogijares, Granada SPAIN
Adam Leach wrote:
I've just noticed in the last two days something has gone horribly wrong with Postfix on SuSE 8.1.
My machine has got a massive queue of emails that it is attempting to send to AOL customers that I never sent myself. AOL is refusing connections, so these emails are sitting in the queue.
I've just quickly done a few mail relay tests and all passed.
Now I'm not sure if it is due to the Spammer being on the same ISP as myself or due to some other problem with Postfix. His ip address is very close to mine Spammer = 81.99.191.26 & Mine = 81.99.191.***
I had configured it to "Soft Bounce" emails as I've been testing a few things.
How can I remove all these emails from the queue, as it is sending hundreds of requests to AOLs mail servers, and this is probably not a good idea.
I've disabled postfix with rcpostfix stop, but what do I do now.
Please help
Adam
I have the same problem with my Open Exchange Server, that use Postfix. Y only have in mynetworks my internal networks, but the servers is like an open relay for all internet. I need only to relay my internal networks. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Una prensa libre es el gran enemigo de los dictadores. Independientemente de sus abusos, sus debilidades, sus errores. Una prensa libre es la gran aliada y defensora de la democracia. Charlos S. Shapiro Embajador de USA en la Rep. de Venezuela Martes, 20 de Mayo 2003
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