Re: Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:35:48 +0100
At 13:29 17.11.97 +0100, NCC local-ir list Moderator wrote:
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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!
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>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,
Set up an access list in your main router and block incoming smpt traffic
for the entire net-address of this company or for the mailservers they own.
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Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards
Stig Bull
IP-drift
Telenor Nextel AS
email privat: stig@localhost
email jobb: sb@localhost
Tlf sentralbord: 22 77 19 00
