Re: Weird messages in daily run report.

From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 04/29/04

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To: samy lancher <washville2003@yahoo.com>

    On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:24:38AM -0700, samy lancher wrote:
    > Hey,
    > thanks for the response. what does messages like below mean?Are they generated from my server?.
    >
    > 4 CORNERSTONE.COMSMTPNEMETHL
    > 1 cornerstone.comSubject
    > 1 cornerstone.comSMTPsacsup
    > 1 cornerstone.comSMTPgilest
    > 1 cornerstone.comSMTProbertst
    > 1 cornerstone.comSMTProbertse__substg1.0_300B0102
    > 1 cornerstone.comSMTProbertse
    > ....
    > cornerstone.com being our domain name and the names after SMTP are our usernames.
    >

    It's not uncommon for spammers to spoof themselves as coming from the
    domain they're trying to send to -- on many sites that will get them
    past quite a lot of the anti-spam functionality.

    However in your case, I think something may have written a lot of
    garbled stuff to your /var/log/maillog, and the daily scripts are
    getting confused and thinking those are e-mail addresses.

    Either that, or a machine, either in your domain or belonging to
    someone who corresponds with you by e-mail, has caught a virus and is
    scouring its hard drive for anything that looks even vaguely like an
    e-mail address and bombarding you with infected messages.

    Quite a few of those addresses look a lot like message IDs to me,
    which fits with either of those scenarios.

            Cheers,

            Matthew 

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