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Re: Huge number of entries in /var/log/maillog

To: Paul Greene <pauljgreene@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Huge number of entries in /var/log/maillog
From: Bruno Saverio Delbono <bdelbono@leviathan.lucifer.at>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:17:03 -0700
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
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Moin Paul! 
 Paul Greene schrieb am Samstag, den 02. August 2003:

>I've recently started noticing a huge amount of mail log files being
>generated on my home system. I'm not sure if I just have some network
>parameters set incorrectly and sendmail is freaking out, or if someone has
>managed to muck into my system for some nefarious purpose.

Most likely.

>Aug  1 23:01:27 webserver sm-msp-queue[1026]: h6S6U2hW010919: 
>to=postmaster, delay=4+21:30:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, 
>pri=21186892, relay=ds1.domainspa.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 
>Connection timed out with ds1.domainspa.com.

You might have an exploitable web script. A faulty formail.pl perhaps. 


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