SPAM Coming From My Server
Oct 29, 2006
I have:
WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R44
CentOS 3.8 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0
I've gotten several complaints through spamcop in the last several weeks. The headers show the spam mails coming from nobody@ my server and they show the originating IP as my server. The datacenter is threatening to shut me down.
I've looked in the mail queue and haven't found any of the sent spam mails in there (or bounces from them). I am getting bounces into horde that were apparently sent from me.
How do I find which client is sending them? Or maybe the server has been hacked and spam software uploaded somewhere?
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May 29, 2007
Logwatch says I send out about 3k emails each day and that is a ridiculous amount. I use postfix and do not run any sort of relay, even for myself. I have IPB 2.2.2, Wordpress 2.0.4, and Gallery 2.x.
How can I track down where these messages are originating from? Or perhaps I am reading my LogWatch file incorrectly?
Quote:
--------------------- postfix Begin ------------------------
17999281 bytes transferred
2460 messages sent
26 messages expired and returned to sender
145 messages removed from queue
Top ten senders:
24 messages sent by:
apache (uid=48):
2 messages sent by:
root (uid=0):
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Mar 26, 2007
I just got a bounce back from an email address. However I didn't send the original email.
Here is the header of the email which was sent to the other party:
Quote:
Subject:
This blend will help you get thinner
From:
"sales" <myaddress>
Date:
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:19:17 -0000
To:
<corprestruct@lists.law.duke.edu>
Received:
from 85.139.98.84.in-addr.arpa (unknown [85.139.98.84]) by lawweb.law.duke.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63EA0292603 for <corprestruct@lists.law.duke.edu>; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:19:18 -0400 (EDT)
Received:
from [69.6.190.249] (HELO VORQPXFNM) by 85.139.98.84 (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.11) with SMTP id 39495966 for corprestruct@lists.law.duke.edu; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:19:17 -0000
Message-ID:
<02ec01c76fd3$44a009b0$54628b55@85.139.98.84.inaddr.arpa>
MIME-Version:
1.0
Content-Type:
multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_02E9_01C76FDB.A62015B0"
X-Priority:
3
X-MSMail-Priority:
Normal
X-Mailer:
Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869
X-MimeOLE:
Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962
Is there anyway of telling what is sending the spam?
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Jan 31, 2007
Recently, just out of interest I set the 'Mail to nonexistent user' to forward to my email address.
Within an hour I have about 60 emails saying:
Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
and then some email address.
I check out the contents of the message that had been sent and it is some rubbish like:
Up to 500% more volume
- Cover her in it if you want
Which, although amusing, i look at the email address that sent the failed email and it is some random email address @ my domain.com which isn't so amusing.
Now I know that someone is just pretending to be from my domain and sending out these emails (unless someone in my office (of 4 people) is secretly a spammer) but yeah I don't particularly want to have my domain name known as being a source of spam and being blacklisted etc etc...
Are negative effects of this a possibility and is there anything i can do about it?
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On the 21st of february, I called their administration about cancelling the server (they had a new offer, which suited me better & because I only wanted a fast network for this server, I didn't care about their support), I was told that if I submitted their cancellation form the same day or the day after, It would be taken care of before the end of the month. So I filled it in and sent it to them on the day after (22 february).
Today I called their administration to check if everything went ok (I didn't want to order the new server & pay the old one at the same time). I was told: No, it isn't cancelled. She checked that my email was there & indeed it was sent to them. She then asked me if I could wait a minute, so she could ask someone else what to do. She told me that she would assign me to a sales guy, who would be able to tell me more about it. He told me that the cancellation has to be done X days in advance. Which I did, then he said: It has to be done a month up front. I asked him why I was told that it would be cancelled on the 22 of february, but now I had to cancel it the 1st of february. He said it was a mistake. There was "nothing" he could do (or wanted to do). I don't have the time do anything about it, so I'll let it be and just pay for another crappy month.
Great, now I'm fed up another month with their server. What if I didn't call them today? I would have had 2 servers with them & they would have, the only thing they want: Money.
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im running centos 5 64 bit, cpanel
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I clicked on that link show cpu processes but they are showing 0
I checked apache connections and no load too
identify where the load reported in WHM is coming from
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I write this as my site has been down for some 11 hours now and need a way to calm down while I wait for my new host to get my account "up".
I've used shared hosting since 1995 up until just a month ago. I was always happy with shared hosting. Who can beat $5 a month to have your site up and running? I had all the subdomains I needed and I even had cPanel. Tech support was fantastic. My accounts were ALWAYS set up within 2 hours tops. Life is good.
Then a recent .com I built got too popular too fast and one day I found (even though I was at 75% of my allotted bandwidth for the month) the plug pulled on my site because (even though it was a static site - html and images only) I was taking up too many "cycles". Too bad cycles aren't something advertised when selling a site to a customer. They made the big mistake of not offering me a VPS soultion from my pitiful little shared hosting account, or any other alternative. So I left them, I had no choice as I couldn't trust them any more.
I got a VPS account, which I must say is not an easy thing to shop for because how do you know who is good? Forums are not a 100% indicator and I don't know any better so it's a crap shoot really. So I looked for the most important qualities: it had to be a managed account because I don't know my butt from a hole in the ground when it comes to running a server (I'm the kind of customer who will tell you "you handle the server voodoo, and let me worry about the content on it ok?"), and I needed a quick setup because my site was already dead in the water.
I picked my first VPS host and all seemed good. My server was fully running in about 2 hours. Once I got through the growing pains of getting various things configured (which I didn't do I aksed for this to be done via trouble tickets) everything was set. The only issue that cropped up here and there was downtime. So now I'm shopping for my second VPS host. I just spent even more money than at my last host and what has my experience been thus far?
I will admit I signed up around 2.am. because my site went down at 11p.m. at my previous host so I was in full panic mode. I plunked down the cash and got an automated email saying how my account must be "verified" over the phone. Fine I wait up an hour or so and finally fall asleep when no call is received. I wake up around 10a.m. and have another email from the new host saying how they couldn't get in touch with me on my phone to "verify" me. I check my phone. Nope, no missed calls, no messages. WTF? So I call them. They have my correct number. Could their call have just never registered on my phone? Is there a black hole for phone calls?
They "verify" me by making me repeat info already provided when I signed up. I've never had a host do this to me, this is ridiculous and a waste of time on everyone's part. Stop. It's a waste of time. If was going to steal someone's credit card I'd buy something a heck of a lot more exciting than a Unix web hosting account at 2a.m.
They tell me I'll get an email with my account info. Great. I wait and wait and nothing arrives. It's almost 10 hours now since my site has gone dark. I write the company to say where is that email so I can get going? I get a quick response that says new account take 8-24 hours to set up. Where the heck was this mentioned on the site when I signed up? Why is this important fact hidden? I"m spending $90 a month, I guess my business isn't important enough to rate better service. Unless a whole bunch of people just signed up for more expensive plans than me at the same time, why can I not get "set up" faster?
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But with my current host, my incoming e-mails have stopped and have done quite a lot of times, If I send an e-mail to myself from another acount, it gets bounced back.
When I'm searching for hosts, I can't see any info on mailbox allowance.
I'm using Outlook to download all my e-mails.
I don't know why they are stopping and I can't find out from the person who got the host from me, in the past he said something about me having to delete e-mails. But this would come back to mailbox space which no hosts seem to advertise, unless it goes under webs space.
If my mailbox is full or ran out of space, does anybody have any recommendations for a host that offers a good amount of mailbox space.
Another question, am I limited to the amount of e-mails I can send with some hosts? I'll be sending out Newsletters to 600+ people each month.
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We're using whm/cpanel and we're always up to date with the latest upgrades (with all our scripts).
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I know little about Linux administration... I tried going to the /var/log folder and grep for dedibox on the messages and maillog files, but nothing found...
How can I know if someone connected to our server as an user or something like that?
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I'm hosted with elitehosts.com, they've been absolutely GREAT for 2 years now.
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The result is email for the domain is no longer dependable.
Senders to the domain get undeliverable bouncebacks.
Is there anyway to fix the problem? The server side spam filters catch the email, but doesn't solve the problem of all the incoming mail.
Is finding a new host (if even just for email) my only option?
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Apr 7, 2008
Have any of your seen anything like this before?
Someone is somehow sending spam via my server.
Looking at /var/log/exim_mainlog I can see many entries like the following:
2008-04-07 21:10:43 1Jixfv-0006ad-4Y [= [] H=smtp.inet.fi [192.89.123.192] P=esmtp S=4192 id=I81c2X5ll000c597d@smtpgw.lapit.fi
2008-04-07 21:10:43 1Jixfv-0006ad-4Y =] info [bot@dole.ie] R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery
2008-04-07 21:10:43 1Jixfv-0006ad-4Y Completed
So it looks like this is an e-mail being sent to bot@dole.ie
However when I look at my mail I can see the mails are being sent FROM bot@dole.ie. For example:
Sorry, but Lyris ListManager did not find your email address
-] "bot@dole.ie"
listed as a member of techno-l.
Only members of techno-l are allowed to contribute messages.
Because Lyris ListManager could not confirm that you are a member of techno-l, your message was not accepted.
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Return-Path: [bot@dole.ie]
Received: from mail.reginamater.com ([201.231.192.60]) by listserver.knowledgeexpress.com with SMTP (Lyris ListManager WIN32 version 8.9a); Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:01:23 -0500
Message-ID: [000501c898ea$068d922e$f5014499@bhudl]
From: "gun mella" [bot@dole.ie]
To: [techno-l@techno-l.org]
Subject: Don't pay too much for your drugs. Buy from us.
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:15:12 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198
4 free pills with every order
[url]
...
There are lots of bounced e-mails being sent back to me.
Does anyone know how I can check to see what's spending the spam or how to stop it?
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how to best deal with email spam.
Here is what's up...
I recently got a dedicated server with The Planet. WHM/Cpanel...
I am a designer and starting to host my clients. So far i've setup about 5 different clients and everyone says the same thing...
Since they've switched to my server the email spam they get to their emails is out of control.
I asked The Planet for help and they said to make sure some spam filters were automatically checked for each account in my WHM and in their unique cpanel accounts, and they are but it hasnt helped. They also have a spam service but i do not want to pay any more per month than i already am.
What would cause this to be so bad versus my clients old servers?
Secondly, what open source solutions are there out there and who is the best to hire to install them on my server?
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My problem is that I have contacted my server provider and support for the scripts I'm running and everyone is saying its the other persons fault. My server provider is saying everything is up to date and it must be a software exploit on one of my scripts, and the support team from my software is saying its not them that its the server.
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I received many email spam recently, with the sender address from my own server.
Eg.
my domain = www.shashinki.com
email spam that I received = shop@shashinki.com which is being sent to my own email address of shop@shashinki.com. Yes, the sender is my own email address account.
I checked using gmail and the sender is from my own server IP address and the sender's email address seems to be valid and is from my own email account.
I have changed the password of my email address, added SPF to my email system...etc. I have done all that I can think of, but I still get the same spam emails.
What can I do and what should I do? I got really tired of this and I am worried that my server is being used to send spams to others.
My server is with LayeredTech, unmanaged server, so I dont have a manager to help me.
Hope to get some insight and help from sifus here...
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