Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:31:37 +0100 From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mystery Spam Piling Up in Mqueue Message-ID: <8764b84ro6.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <45AAFC85.9090205@highperformance.net> (Jason C. Wells's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:01:09 -0800") References: <45AAFC85.9090205@highperformance.net>
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"Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> writes: > I have a bunch of mail piling up in /var/spool/mqueue. It appears to be > all spam and it appears to be generated on the localhost. I am not > sending it. Like Jeff said, this looks very much like bounces generated by spam which was sent with a forged, undeliverable sender address (big surprise, huh?). Pileups like these will happen every once in a while, and there's really not too much you can do apart from putting some effort into making sure your systems stay clean. With a bit of care it is possible to remove messages from your delivery queue, but unless disk space is really tight or the messages are just too d**n annoying, you can just leave them there to automagically go away after a few days. As for "giving spammers a hard time", you could for entertainment (and possibly some information value) try putting that exact string into your favorite search engine. Cheers, -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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