From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 08:31:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCD416A407 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:31:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from skapet.datadok.no (skapet.datadok.no [194.54.107.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCCCC13C457 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:31:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from thingy.datadok.no ([194.54.103.97] helo=thingy.datadok.no.bsdly.net ident=peter) by skapet.datadok.no with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H6NFk-00076I-2C for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:31:40 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45AAFC85.9090205@highperformance.net> From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:31:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <45AAFC85.9090205@highperformance.net> (Jason C. Wells's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:01:09 -0800") Message-ID: <8764b84ro6.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Mystery Spam Piling Up in Mqueue 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: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:31:43 -0000 "Jason C. Wells" 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.