From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 18:38:38 EST
Have you ever looked in the maillog file?
Wietse
Jean-Rene Cormier:
> Oh and I forgot to say that the box was setup to forward all mail to our
> current mail server and since our mail server is setup so anyone on our
> network can send mail through it, Postfix thought it was legit mail.
>
> And BTW I already suggested to my boss that a firewall should be in the
> priority list.
>
> Jean-Rene Cormier
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De?:
> [mailto:] De la part de Jean-Rene Cormier
> Envoy??: 1 novembre, 2002 17:02
> ??:
> Objet?: What happens to email that Postfix can't deliver?
>
> We just had this situation where one employee setup an SMTP program on
> his test computer but left it open to everyone so in one night we got
> somebody who used that box to send a lot of spam, the SMTP was on from
> around 4PM and the next morning we got a call from our provider saying
> we were sending spam, so to make a long story short, this week's maillog
> file is already 10 time bigger than the previous ones, I was wondering
> what happens to the mail that can't be delivered? Like the recipient's
> and the sender's address can't be reach will postfix keep these emails
> forever or something? Also how can I know how much mail there's in the
> queues?
>
> Jean-Rene Cormier
>
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