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Subject: Re: Majordomo spam problem
From: karlp @ ourldsfamily . com
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:27:35 -0600 (MDT)
To: "Michael Wilkinson" <mike @ towerravens . com>
Cc: "Majordomo Users" <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
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If you get some great responses, please post them to the list. I've got fears
along those lines, but haven't seen what you've seen (yet X-fingers). Also,
could you post the steps you used to determine what had happened and then how
you stopped the invasion.

Thanks,

Karl

On Mon, May 22, 2006 7:37 pm, Michael Wilkinson said:
> I've been a LONG time user/admin of majordomo, and I've recently
> experienced something I'm not sure what to do about or how to
> combat.
>
> I'm using majordomo 1.94.5, and sendmail 8.13.4, somehow evil spammers
> used my majordomo mail alias to relay spam through my sendmail server.
> It was a mess, I had to clean out my domain/ip from some blackhole
> lists.
>
> I picked up on it because I got quite a few majordomo abort messages.
> I've been trying to dissect how they used it exactly, unfortunately,
> I don't have my sendmail logs for that time period anymore.
>
> I was able to stop it by commenting my majordomo mail alias out of
> my aliases file. I was wondering if any here has seen anything like
> this, and if so, how I may prevent the problem in the future.
>
> Thanks!
> -Mike
>
> --
> Michael Wilkinson
> Game Designer              There are 10 kinds of people in this world,
> Tower Ravens LLC           those who understand binary and those who don't.
>


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