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Thought I should send an epilogue on this one... turned out that my |
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brother had set up his (and several family members') laptops to use the |
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postmaster account to send mail! He goes from coffee shop to coffee shop |
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every day, so -- along with the other people who were sending using |
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postmaster -- that explains the varying IP addresses. |
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Not sure why he used postmaster, but at least it wasn't something nefarious. |
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Richard Yumul wrote: |
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> Based on your log entries, it looks like somebody discovered your |
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> 'postmaster@×××××.com' password and is using it to relay messages. |
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> Did you check your qmail-send log around the same time? It would have |
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> more details, showing if it's relaying emails. |
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> You also might try changing your postmaster's password to something |
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> really cryptic, & see if those log entries still appear. |
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> HTH, |
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> Rich Yumul |
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> Ben Munat wrote: |
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>> I posted the following on the weekend and it seems to have been |
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>> overlooked. If no one really has any ideas, I'm sorry for the repost, |
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>> but, I would think that someone here has used vpopmail... I'm really |
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>> hoping that this is something that vpopmail puts in the logs normally! |
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>> Here's my previous post: |
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>> Finally got around to installing a log monitoring tool (logwatch) this |
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>> morning. I'm not sure why it doesn't give me any output for any services |
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>> other than syslogd (maybe cuz all the other services are dumping into |
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>> /var/log/messages?), but while looking through /var/log/messages for |
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>> stuff that logwatch might find, I saw something that made my heart skip |
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>> a beat. |
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>> There are a number of vpopmail entries like this: |
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>> Nov 6 10:21:51 munat vpopmail[29101]: vchkpw-smtp: password fail |
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>> postmaster@×××××.com:80.104.163.225 |
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>> Nov 6 10:21:57 munat vpopmail[29103]: vchkpw-smtp: (PLAIN) login |
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>> success postmaster@×××××.com:80.104.163.225 |
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>> Always in pairs like that... mostly with different addresses, and |
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>> addresses that I don't recognize. My brother and I are the only people |
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>> who should be able to log into the postmaster account, and we rarely do |
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>> so, so... |
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>> The question is, has my vpopmail been hacked or is this somehow a |
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>> typical vpopmail occurrence? Going back through messages, there are |
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>> entries like this every day. So maybe, for some strange reason vpopmail |
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>> prints this entry in the logs periodically? |
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>> Ben |
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> -- |
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