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[cobalt-security] /etc/mail/access file being ignored
- Subject: [cobalt-security] /etc/mail/access file being ignored
 
- From: "Keith Ford" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:05:43 -0600
 
- Organization: MemberClicks
 
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
 
Title: Message
Running a 
RaQ550.  We've been fighting off a spammer since Friday.  Then woke up 
this morning having been hacked.  Early on we were noticing that the REJECT 
lines in /etc/mail/access were not being respected.  The pop-before-relay 
seemed to be working but these spammers were still getting in.  When we 
attempted to block their IPs, that is when we noticed the issue with 
/etc/mail/access.
 
One interesting 
note, when they would connect to our sendmail it would see their IP, but they 
were identifying themselves with a server name that was our IP address.  
Still not sure how they were pulling off the relay, as their IP was not in 
popip.db.  Doesn't poprelayd only look at 
/var/log/maillog?
 
Anyhoo, just curious 
if anyone else has ventured down this road.
 
 
-keith