Hi Guys,

My mail server seems to stop responding almost every morning, and I'm wondering if someone is spamming through it.

How do I telnet in and see what mail is being sent out from all my domains at any given time?

first off, disable telnet. if you don't, you will be owned. install ssh. you can find a pkg for ssh at pkgmaster.com - and a free ssh client by using putty - search google for putty, hit "im feeling lucky"

use SSH2 when you attempt to connect

anyway, back to the question at hand

ssh into your box as admin

su -

enter the root password (same as admin)

cd /var/log

tail -50 maillog

this will show you the last 50 lines of the mail log. you could just type

tail -10 maillog

and then keep hitting up arrow, enter, up arrow, enter etc. to watch what's coming through in realtime.

hope this helps

Brandon

That's very helpful, thank you.

I did everything you suggested and I'm now using ssh and putty. I found using

tail -f maillog

added new entries automatically.

One query though, how do I actually turn off telnet ?

just turn it off in the raq control panel(ie. clear the check box besides it) and save the settings.

Ah, well, that was pretty easy! Thanks for the info, I am amazed at how many times I have seen that menu and somehow I just never noticed telnet was in there.

Many thanks.

Did you ever found out why your RAQ3 keeps on stopping?

tail -f maillog

duh, I should've told you that, sorry! brain freeze on my part.