-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2008 03:11 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: | I have a server box running Fedora Core 2 which hasn't been updated | since sendmail 8.12.11-4.6. It has two mailman lists running on it which | are important to me. Also, over the last few years, I've set up 2-4 | email accounts which are hosted by the server for the convenience of | guests who have stayed with us for vacations and so on. I haven't paid | much attention to either mailman or the email accounts over the years -- | they didn't cause an overt problem until now. Today I finally started | investigating why some of my posts to the mailing list were not coming | back to me as expected, and discovered that my /var/spool/mqueue | directory is monstrously bloated. Look at the '20668416' in the | directory listing (although I'm not sure what that number means, except | to indicate the directory has a lot of files in it): | | drwx------ 2 root mail 20668416 Jan 6 15:58 mqueue | | I deleted the folder and then recreated it with the same permissions. | But I'm still getting floods of emails from somewhere. 279 in the past | hour or so. They look like spam. | | How can I put a stop to these emails -- do I need procmail recipes? Can | I configure sendmail to drop anything not coming in for a valid user? Or | is it best to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora and work on | tightening up processing of incoming emails? Is there any way of | stopping the tidal wave of spam? What is a sensible approach to fixing | this? What are some of the messages in mqueue? My bet is that you have a (1) bunch of dead/dying addresses in your mailing list and (2) these are overwhelmingly reject messages for spam delivered to non-existent spam on your server. Are you doing any spam processing? By the way, Fedora 2 is not longer updated and should not be considered secure. You might put the effort into rebuilding the server before installing antispam solutions or reconfiguring anything. - -- ~ Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHgUkmeERILVgMyvARAh2lAJ4u4roLmmTkzK2l1Xn4d5BOQYXHGwCfbPcQ Wzls3CwRj6yckw0aFUCPQNM= =+mDe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
