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somebody sent a lot of (spam) email using my server. how can i figure who done that, because my server is now on spam list, and that is a big problem for me.
are you hosting a website on the server as well ? sometimes there are exploitable code on web servers that can be used to send spam, so don't over look the website if you have one there..
are you hosting a website on the server as well ? sometimes there are exploitable code on web servers that can be used to send spam, so don't over look the website if you have one there..
i know that, so i want to check which account is used to send emails from server.
yeah, /var/log is a good start.
on the web server we can do this it may help on mail server as well? I donno? wouldnt hurt to try:
to edit your /etc/hosts.deny and add the intruders IP addresses (from auth.log)and block them.
you can actually make an executable file under /log and run it; here's a little widget i found and modified it to work with my system;
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