Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:01:49
Message-Id: 449AC9BC.2010406@qrypto.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question by Michael Sullivan
1 Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > What do you make of this? I found it in /var/log/messages:
3 >
4 > Jun 22 10:59:15 bullet sm-mta[2558]: k5L4mNFw021664:
5 > to=<aw-conf@××××××××××.com>, delay=1+11:10:52, xdelay=00:03:09,
6 > mailer=esmtp, pri=6425885, relay=mail.midamerica.com. [65.243.220.163],
7 > dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.midamerica.com.
8 >
9 >
10 > There are several of these. It looks to me as if someone is trying to
11 > send mail to aw-conf@××××××××××.com, but neither my wife nor I know
12 > them, and we're the only espersunited.com users who use mail actively.
13 > Has my mail system been compromised?
14 >
15 Hi,
16 Are you using a local mail-server or a relayhost (yout ISP mail-server)?
17 Check to see if your mail server (if any) isn't an open relay.
18 Google for a site to check or check the config.
19 HTH.Rumen

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