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
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