From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 25 13:39:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EF416A42A for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 13:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CAFE43D48 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 13:39:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 20774 invoked from network); 25 May 2006 13:39:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gondolin.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@68.251.65.204 with login) by smtp109.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 May 2006 13:39:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503143D0; Thu, 25 May 2006 08:39:23 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from gondolin.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id xpisgPxnr6nK; Thu, 25 May 2006 08:39:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 910883C7; Thu, 25 May 2006 08:39:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4475B385.1080502@mikestammer.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:39:17 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <44758A50.10405@messias.qhigh.com> <4475B128.5000607@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4475B128.5000607@mac.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Gandalf Subject: Re: Strange messages in mail queue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:39:25 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > User Gandalf wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I might be offtopic... >> I always get a long daily output from periodic. >> >> >> Mail in local queue: >> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient------- >> 1D3C91DD4AA 45937 Tue May 23 10:54:42 MAILER-DAEMON >> (connect to onmail02.ongov.net[12.33.98.207]: Operation >> timed out) >> robinrandall@ongov.net >> 571EC1DD443 28752 Thu May 25 00:40:30 MAILER-DAEMON >> (connect to paramed.biz[204.251.15.174]: Operation >> timed out) >> nicholas@paramed.biz >> C04121DD4A0 28736 Mon May 22 13:20:50 MAILER-DAEMON >> (connect to pistonheads.biz[195.225.218.139]: Operation >> timed out) >> philip@pistonheads.biz >> >> and many others. Is this a breakin attempt? Or is this normal? I do >> not know any of the e-mail addresses. >> Thanks, > > It's undelivered SPAM which your mail server is trying to bounce back to > the sending machine. In low quantities, it's annoying but harmless. In > higher volumes, it can put a drag on or even DoS your SMTP box. Some > combination of SpamAssassin, virus-scanning, Amavisd, or even > greylisting will help.... > what MTA are you using? i'm wondering why your server accepted the email in the first place.