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Eratus

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Is there anybody who can help somehow there are hundreds of messages spam been generated on our system and we can not stop this spam we have done all that was explained in exim

to stop this I have changed the status of the /var/spool/exim with chmod 000 exim
 
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I know Jeff offered to help, to log in as a commercial service and help. That is your only option at the moment. You don't give enough details for anyone to help.

If you really want help, try posting information like your /var/log/exim/mainlog and the output to 'ps -eaf' or 'ps aux' depending on which OS you are running. That might be an actual start, by the sounds of it, there is a script running on your system.
 
toml said:
I know Jeff offered to help, to log in as a commercial service and help. That is your only option at the moment. You don't give enough details for anyone to help.

If you really want help, try posting information like your /var/log/exim/mainlog and the output to 'ps -eaf' or 'ps aux' depending on which OS you are running. That might be an actual start, by the sounds of it, there is a script running on your system.
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Thanks yes I onlu want to complete the two new servers so that it is fair to him.

the main prob is to control the user for know sending more than 200 emails per day.

That does not seem to work
 
Eratus said:
to stop this I have changed the status of the /var/spool/exim with chmod 000 exim
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That will stop a lot more than just spam. If the spool is unavailable there are lots of circumstances under which exim will just panic (the exim instance will crash) and not be able to do anything with the mail.

In other words, this is not a good idea.

Also now that you've found the problem and blocked the IP# you should clear the spool of all the spam stuck in it. And of course you should figure out how the sender got into your system in the first place, because it represents a problem somewhere on your server.

Jeff
 
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