Re: Securing Sendmail 8.11.6-23 from spammers
Tony Nugent <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma |
|---|---|
| Organization | Linux Works |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu Mar 06 2003 at 12:40, gti617 wrote: > By the way; While watching the maillog, I noticed the following line. Does > this mean anything to you guys? > > Mar 6 12:16:33 zzz sendmail[1435]: h24MgUc01676: to=<[email protected]>, > delay=1+21:34:03, xdelay=00:01:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=91549294, > relay=mail.xxx.info. [x.x.x.x], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed > out with mail.xxx.info. > > I think this guys is trying to relay. So I palced a REJECT on both the IP > and "@xxx.info" in the access file. But it keeps on getting created in the > maillog file with a different "delay=1+21:34:03". Any comments? Thanks You do have a lot to learn. That is _your_ server trying to contact mail.xxx.info at that x.x.x.x address. Do "mailq" and see what you get. Tony