Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-04 Thread lists
ter on all linux boxes on hand.   Original Message   From: Bill Cole Sent: Monday, July 4, 2016 2:22 PM To: Postfix users Reply To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem On 3 Jul 2016, at 0:36, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: > This is probably more of a freebsd question, but it see

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 3 Jul 2016, at 0:36, li...@lazygranch.com wrote: This is probably more of a freebsd question, but it seems to me that Postfix should be hogging (bound) to the mail ports, so if something is sending email, it has to be using Postfix. That's not how TCP/IP or Postfix works. Postfix binds lis

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-03 Thread lists
July 3, 2016 10:03 AM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem * Matthew McGehrin : > Hello. > > Your assuming that port 25 needs to be open on the local side to send > mail. this is not the case. There are two possibilities here. > > 1. A dirty IP was ass

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-03 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Matthew McGehrin : > Hello. > > Your assuming that port 25 needs to be open on the local side to send > mail. this is not the case. There are two possibilities here. > > 1. A dirty IP was assigned to your server, and that the previous owner > had a spam issue. Give the shortages of ipv4 addr

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-03 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* li...@lazygranch.com : > This is probably more of a freebsd question, but it seems to me that Postfix > should be hogging (bound) to the mail ports, so if something is sending > email, it has to be using Postfix. No. Sending can be done by other processes as well, since it doesn't require bin

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-03 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Matthew McGehrin : > Hello. > > I would check your local system to see if you have any rogue perl > processes running. These are generally the cause of being blacklisted > for a dictionary attack, which implies that a script is running on your > local server. > > Generally, you can spot them

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-03 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
> : host smx1.web-hosting.com[209.188.21.38] said: 550 > The >     sending IP (my dotted quad) is listed on https://spamrl.com as a source of >     dictionary attacks. (in reply to end of DATA command) That would mean that something tried logins against a POP/IMAP/SMTP server -- not necessarily

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-03 Thread Matthew McGehrin
Hello. Your assuming that port 25 needs to be open on the local side to send mail. this is not the case. There are two possibilities here. 1. A dirty IP was assigned to your server, and that the previous owner had a spam issue. 2. It's a php exploit, that spawns a perl script to send outbou

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-02 Thread Stefan Caunter
gt; To: Postfix users > Subject: Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem > > Hello. > > I would check your local system to see if you have any rogue perl > processes running. These are generally the cause of being blacklisted > for a dictionary attack, which implies that a script is r

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-02 Thread lists
be in the rc.d to get fired up when I boot?   Original Message   From: Matthew McGehrin Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2016 7:24 PM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem Hello. I would check your local system to see if you have any rogue perl processes running. These are generally the cau

Re: Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-02 Thread Matthew McGehrin
Hello. I would check your local system to see if you have any rogue perl processes running. These are generally the cause of being blacklisted for a dictionary attack, which implies that a script is running on your local server. Generally, you can spot them by the amount of CPU time, and the

Spamrl.com RBL problem

2016-07-02 Thread lists
I will start this over to get rid of the HTML mail crap. This is the bounce reply with some sanitizing to keep this message off of the Google bot:   ‎This is the mail system at host www.mydomain.com I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered