[Techtalk] question reference mail programs

Devdas Bhagat devdas at dvb.homelinux.org
Sat Aug 21 18:32:00 EST 2004


On 21/08/04 08:35 -0400, Helen wrote:
> I recently received an email from someone saying that I was spamming them
> from my receive only account.  I checked into it a bit further yesterday and
> found that I had started postfix on my server with my receive only address
> as the masquerade.  It looks like I may have been spamming people from the
> server.  I am using Suse 9.0 and I was recently doing and online update and
> I received an error message for my postfix config as well.  But it said
> nothing except that it had found a /etc/postfix/main.cf.SuSEconfig .... and
> was exiting with a warning.
> Does anyone have any experience with this?

Lots. Working abuse desk makes this a very common event.

Post 
the output of postconf -n, 
full headers from the complainer,
the relevant logs, if any.

Post postconf -n anyway, lets see if the config is good, or has possible
holes.

Devdas Bhagat


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