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- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 97 13:37:16 +0100
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Subject: Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
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VNM3042: piet.spiessens@localhost@BELGACOM
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:59:42 -0000
From: "Mark Simcoe" msimcoe@localhost
To: local-ir-list@localhost
Subject: Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
Hi,
We have just been used as a smtp relay for one of the US spam companies and
it crashed one of our mail servers, the service remained unaffected as our
backup systems took over but we use sendmail and I cannot seem to find out
how to stop us from being used in this fashion.
I know this is not the correct list for this sort of thing but I need some
expert advice as our software suppliers don't know how to stop it.
As a general warning to everyone out there we need to protect our systems
from these people who are starting to use us all to deliver their mail for
them without paying us a penny.
Please someone help,
Mark.
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