Re: Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:41:36 +0100
- Comments: Authenticated sender is mdavids@localhost
- Organization: N.V. Casema Internet
- Posted-date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:41:36 +0100 (MET)
- Priority: normal
- Return-receipt-to: "Marco Davids" mdavids@localhost
Hi,
Please stop putting the word Urgent in your mails. My GSM starts
beeping for that! (SMS-messages).
Anyway, since it probably is an urgent matter you are forgivven....
Have a look at http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~ca
It implements quite well and works great.
Good luck!
> Reply- Subject: Urgent, being used as spam relay Please Help!
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:29:51 +0100
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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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