[svlug] Figuring out who is spamming from my network???

Mark msalists at gmx.net
Wed May 23 10:00:03 PDT 2007


Hi,

I am trying to figure out who is using my server to send spam.

I got as far as finding the log entries in the qmail logs ("mail.info") and identical lines in the "messages" log. 
However, there is no user ID. 

How can I find out the user id that was used to authenticate during the SMTP session? I tried sending an email through the server
without authenticating and the server rejected it, so whoever sent the email must have authenticated. Unless there is a way around
the authentication that I am not aware of.

I also found the corresponding "START: smtp" log entry in the xinetd log, but no user ID here either.

Does qmail log who authenticates, and if not can I make it do it?

Thanks,

MARK




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