I had this spam problem on my server. Some perl scripts uploaded to /tmp folder were generating lots of spam email. We stopped sendmail, cleaned the server from all the bugs and erased all the messages in /var/spool/mqueue. Yet when I start sendmail again I begin receiving lots of autoresponders and returned emails. Where are those incoming mails located? In which queue?
View 3 Repliesproblem with incoming spam to my server. Causing high load that eventually take down the server.
Since I don't use the server for my mail (I use Gmail), can anyone let me know the easiest way to stop/block all incoming mails to the server? I still need outgoing mail, though. Some of my PHP forms need it.
Right now, I stopped Exim to save the server (if it runs, load can get to 900+).
write a script which will run a script on every incoming mail, the script must touch a file in /var/log/mail - filename must be a login on server... thats all
i found something to use procmail, but i dont know how to bite it
how to do that? would be nice if you drop some links or tutorials..
always i hate mail servers!
We switched to a 3rd party mail server provided by our local ISP, however when attempts are made to mail anyone on our domain a message similar to one of the following is received:
Quote:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
my_email_address@our_domain
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 550 5.7.1 <my_email_address@our_domain>... Relaying denied
or
Quote:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<my_email_address@our_domain>:
70.43.63.21 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 <my_email_address@our_domain>... Relaying denied Giving up on 70.43.63.21.
I've made sure the MX records are in place on our nameserver, and I've verified this with DNS Stuff.
I seem to think the problem is on our ISP's end.
I wonder if is it possible to clean Queue for specific client on my box. For example: "if queue for specific email is too long clear it".
Got sendmail, spamassasin, spamdyke, plesk
onboard.