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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:37:56 -0800
From:      "Joel F Rodriguez" <joel@tahoestores.com>
To:        <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   FreeBSD Port: netqmail-tls-1.06.20110119
Message-ID:  <000b01d05520$62e3e000$28aba000$@tahoestores.com>

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Hello,

 

I thought I'd send you a quick email to let you know that this port seems to
be full of security holes. While it seems to work in normal operations, I
experienced numerous spam attacks caused by an apparent failure of
AUTH(STARTTLS). 

 

Folks were authorizing using unknown accounts and passwords (backdoors?) and
I faced a flood of spam as a result. I was able to log one account that was
being used, and I was unable to block the attack even when I removed the
account. These attacks continued even after I updated every email account to
use a random 20 char password.

 

The second issue I see here is that anyone that successfully authorizes can
send email using any address they wish, which is why I was getting SPAM
generated using fake email address as the originator.

 

The port I am using is FreeBSD tahoestores.net 9.2-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD
9.2-RELEASE-p10 #0: Tue Jul  8 10:48:24 UTC 2014
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 and
is the version of qmail is netqmail-tls-1.06.20110119.

 

I would be happy to send you more detailed configurations docs.

 

For now, I have had to drop tls support.

 

Thanks

 

Joel Rodriguez

Gossamer Computer Services

 

 




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