Actually, the spam I recieved, and posted the bits and pieces here to the
list for some debate and to inform, was not broadcast from my sendmail at
all, but broadcast from another server to mine. Wish I had saved it and
could display the headers for folks. Then again, I'm sure that someone
else out here may well have gotten a copy of the same spam announcing this
mail bombing tool for the masses...if so, please, post the headers for
others to review.
My best to one and all,
Ron DuFresne
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Nick Simicich wrote:
>
> : Yes, it is true. You need to change your SMTP server to stop relaying.
> : You may need to get a new version of sendmail.
>
> Looking at the mail Greg posted, he's using a Netscape Mailserver. Which
> doesn't support anti-relaying. :((
>
> If anyone knows a solution to stop the abuse of Netscape Mailservers as a
> relay for spamming, please let me know. I already heard a 'solution' like:
> take another machine, and use Exim on that one. But 'take another machine'
> is out of the question at the moment :(
>
> Remco
>
> :
> : On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Greg Walker wrote:
> :
> : > Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:02:13 -0500
> : > From: Greg Walker <greg @
trade-a-plane .
com>
> : > To: firewalls @
GreatCircle .
COM
> : > Subject: Re: Mail bombing made legal...
> : >
> : > Ron DuFresne wrote:
> : >
> : > > SPECIAL CLOAKING DEVICE: Email Blaster can successfully hide the
> : > > origin of
> : > > all email being sent out. Email Blaster can mask itself to look like
> : > > it
> : > > came from the recipients own host. This will help stop users from
> : > > flaming
> : > > your email box!
> : > >
> : >
> : > Is this for real? I have been getting hundreds of error messages from
> : > our mail server at night with the following cotent:
> : >
> : > Your message was not delivered because the destination computer
> : > was
> : > not found. Carefully check that it was spelled correctly and try
> : >
> : > sending it again if there were any mistakes.
> : >
> : > Host spamco.com not found
> : >
> : > The following recipients did not receive this message:
> : >
> : > <Bigspamdaddy @
spamco .
com>
> : >
> : > The original mail envelope addresses are:
> : >
> : > User-From: SMTP<>
> : > Recipient: [<Bigspamdaddy @
spamco .
com>]
> : >
> : >
> : > Anybody have any ideas?
> : >
> : > Thanks,
> : >
> : > Greg Walker
> : > TAP Publishing Company
> : >
> :
> : Of course my password is the same as my pet's name.
> : My macaw's name was Q47pY!3, but I change it every 90 days.
> : Nick Simicich mailto:njs @
scifi .
squawk .
com or (last choice) mailto:njs @
us .
ibm .
com
> : http://scifi.squawk.com/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
> :
>
> --
> // Remco van de Meent
> // email: remco @
oloon .
student .
utwente .
nl
> // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl
> // " Never make any mistaeks. "
>
>
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