| Re: Advice needed on combatting a spammer |
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Author: Hopping Mad Date: May 13, 2008 07:54
On May 13, 1:00Â am, Andreas Kohlbach spamfence.net> wrote:> Hopping Mad wrote on 11. May 2008:
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>> I'm looking for some advice on combatting a spammer. Â My mail server
>> (and no doubt others') has been used this weekend to sent countless
>> thousand spam messages. Â I only found this as I get the reports of
>> failed outbound messages.
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> Are you sure you have a mail server? If, and if it's been hacked, it's
> *your* fault. Of course you can always bomb spammers or do other things
> to them - if you know how whether they used your server or not. But if it
> was your server: your fault!
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> But as others already mentioned, it's more likely spammers "just" used
> your email address. Happened to the others here too (me too).
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>> Ideally I'd love toshut this guy down - any advice on how?
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> Thermo nuclear weapons. ;-)
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>> I would have liked to close my own server, but I need it for genuine
>> business activity. Â I'm exploring a solution further with my ISP.
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> Check its logs for "status=sent" (Postfix here) if a spammer was able to
> send mails.
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> Andreas
> In a perfect world, spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a
> cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and
> are looking for a new relationship.
Hi all -
Thanks very much for your replies - they've helped clarify things for
me and have helped me clearly separate a compromised server (which is
being investigated by my tech support team) and reputation.
Sounds like this Dirk guy will hang himself in the end, which is
satisfaction enough for me. I love it - a guy builds his business on
internet reputation and winds up doing himself in on unsolicited
spam! :-)
A common point in all of your comments has been to identify where the
mail is actually coming from. I'm awaiting news from my ISP on their
findings, but is there anything I can see in the emails that get
returned to my Outlook inbox which will help me do my own research?
Thanks again for your help.
Chris
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