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Old 07-17-2009, 06:16 AM   #1
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Logwatch, postfix, message sent... Please read...


Hi all,
my logwatch send me every day a mail...

Every day I can see in the Postfix section that there are more than 150 mail sent.
This is really strange since I don't send more than 50 mail a day...

Is there something that I can't understand? Or is there something strange on my VPS?
Please help.
 
Old 07-17-2009, 08:24 AM   #2
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Read /var/log/mail*log?
 
Old 07-17-2009, 08:41 AM   #3
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Read /var/log/mail*log?
My maillog is really too big...
there is tons of refer from spamhaus that blocks incoming spam...
Is there a better solution?
 
Old 07-17-2009, 09:54 AM   #4
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How do you expect to find the problem if you don't look for it?
 
Old 07-17-2009, 10:16 AM   #5
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How do you expect to find the problem if you don't look for it?
I looked into it...
there are no un-authorized email sent...
but why there postfix told me that yesterday sent 150 messages if I sent only 50 mail?
everyday postfix sent about 150 messages..
 
Old 07-17-2009, 10:18 AM   #6
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and processing on your mail? clamav? amavis?
 
Old 07-17-2009, 10:27 AM   #7
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and processing on your mail? clamav? amavis?
I use amavisd, do I need to count also the email processed from amavisd in the sent mail?
 
Old 07-17-2009, 10:34 AM   #8
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Send a mail and post the last 30 lines of /var/log/mail.log
 
Old 07-19-2009, 07:46 PM   #9
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change logwatch to level 10...and get more info.


then decide if it is really saying you are seding 150 mails a day.

Do not forget all the mail sent to root and other systems (including logwatch) are possibly going through your postfix depending on how you set it up.

level 10 will show a lot more explanations...for my sendmail I get this..(deprecated info)

--------------------- sendmail Begin ------------------------



STATISTICS
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Bytes Transferred: 78684011
Messages Processed: 16120
Addressed Recipients: 16450

Message recipients per delivery agent:
Name # Rcpts
esmtp 2
local 1365
*file* 14657
---------------------
TOTAL: 16024
in addition to 6 relay
submission(s) from MSP


Message Size Distribution:
Range # Msgs KBytes
0 - 10k 14867 50340
10k - 20k 689 7524
20k - 50k 545 16496
50k - 100k 11 830
100k - 500k 8 1647
----------------------------------
TOTAL 16120 76839
Avg. Size 4

Top 10 Email Recipients
----------------------------------
(deprecated information, not for you to see online)

-------------
tons of lines of information on errors and such here....and then the last part below.
------------

Mail Rejected:
User unknown:
To: <pleagevagetop@gmail.com>: 1 Time(s)
Total: 1

Total SMTP Session, Message, and Recipient Errors handled by Sendmail: 1261
 
  


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