Re: PO newbie

[Harry MF Teasley <het3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 27, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Harry MF Teasley wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2004, at 12:30 PM, postoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > hi all,
> >
> > we installed PO couple month ago, and all is fine except for:
>
> Nope, all is not fine.  Folks are trying to relay spam through your 
> server, and either they're succeeding, or you're at least accepting 
> the mail for delivery (if not actually delivering it).  Any number 
> of things could be the issue, but definitely check the relay options 
> on the P.O configuration page, and make sure it's set up securely. 
> The help docs and FAQ have good info on which options make you 
> vulnerable to relaying spam.

Oh, and one more thing.  When this happened to me, when I first set 
P.O up, I made the mistake of deleting the contents of the /messages 
folder via the Terminal, causing P.O to completely wig out.  It 
started DDoSsing itself with error messages to Postmaster about how 
it couldn't find such-and-such piece of mail, and it was producing 
those so fast it started generating messages to Postmaster about how 
such-and-such process was delayed because the server was busy.  So 
hundreds of messages turned into thousands which turned into tens of 
thousands.  So be careful how you do things.

But take your server off the net until you can figure out whether or 
not you're actually sending all the mail you're accepting for 
delivery.

Harry Teasley

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