Spam problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:21:51AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Sadly, it is/was coming from my machine. :<
> 
> I've upgraded the server and blocked about 8 class A networks at my 
> firewall. It's draconian, but it seems to have stemmed the tide until I 
> can look at the problem tomorrow (it's 2:30am now...).
> 
> It looks like they've found a way to connect to my machine's sendmail 
> even though relaying should be denied. Any idea how this could have 
> happened? At any rate, I will look into that tomorrow. Thanks for your help!

sendmail has a long history of being a security disaster.  Why anyone
ever uses it anymore is beyond my imagination.  Why not postfix or exim?
Simpler to configure, way less security problems over the years.

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