 | View Full Version : How the hell do I stop spammers from using sendmail? universal2001 06-22-2002, 10:18 PM like the subject says... Is there a wrapper or program that monitors SENDMAIL and say for example, if sendmail is being used to send over 30 emails per minute, it sends an email to the admin letting us know or suspends the account? utadmin 06-22-2002, 10:32 PM Yes Qmail is a good sendmail program Which control panel do u use ... i think ensim has something like that built in AcuNett 06-22-2002, 11:42 PM Delete the guy's account :o MotleyFool 06-24-2002, 12:57 AM Use qmail and rblsmtpd and tarpitt remove sendmail from /usr/bin or wherever it is and set up a link to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject apollo 07-06-2002, 04:04 PM Maybe you have an open relay SMTP? Or maybe a buggy php/cgi script that grants free access to sendmail and then someone is using it to send out spam? check out the system logs and processes and you will be able to fix the problem or catch the user who is abusing your system resources |