[ale] OT -> Need help troubleshooting qmail

Nathan J. Underwood ale1 at cybertechcafe.net
Mon Jan 17 20:53:18 EST 2005


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Nathan J. Underwood
Cyber Tech Cafe' <><
http://www.cybertechcafe.net

Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Over the past 3 days, I've started getting a TON of 'failure notices' 
> that report to have been originally destined for domains that I host. 
> The server that these domains have in common is a RH9 machine running 
> the 'Plesk' version of qmail 
> (psa-qmail-rblsmtpd-0.70-rh9.build71041118.17 and 
> psa-qmail-1.03-rh9.build71041124.11).  The messages that I'm receiving 
> are 'bounced bounces', and I'm really not sure where to start.  I've 
> captured 218 of them, but can't see any real similarities between them 
> (source IP, originating address [most look like generated addresses]). 
> All of the original messages appear to be SPAM.  I've verified that my 
> server isn't relaying (telnet to the SMTP port, try to send mail to an 
> outside domain from an outside domain, and that doesn't work [doesn't 
> relay]).  I've enclosed a copy of one of the messages below.  Anyone got 
> any ideas on 1) what could be causing this, or 2) what I may be able to 
> do to stop it?
> 
> --== Message ==--
> 
> mailto:mallory at gocubs.org
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at <my server>.
> I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce 
> bounced!
> 
> <mallory at gocubs.org>:
> 216.200.145.51 does not like recipient.
> Remote host said: 554 Recipient Rejected: Not accepting mail for this 
> account : Account Inactive
> Giving up on 216.200.145.51.
> 
> --- Below this line is the original bounce.
> 
> Return-Path: <>
> Received: (qmail 1767 invoked for bounce); 15 Jan 2005 21:02:33 -0000
> Date: 15 Jan 2005 21:02:33 -0000
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@<my server>
> To: mallory at gocubs.org
> Subject: failure notice
> 
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at <my server>.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following 
> addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
> 
> <marino at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <ledbetter at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <robison at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <lacey at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <elmore at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <moyet at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <davila at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <godwin at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> <winn at swsltd.com>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
> 
> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
> 
> Return-Path: <mallory at gocubs.org>
> Received: (qmail 1475 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2005 21:02:08 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO gocubs.org) (222.65.83.32)
>   by <my server> with SMTP; 15 Jan 2005 21:02:02 -0000
> Message-ID: <95360181.37DC017 at gocubs.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 07:17:28 +1000
> From: "clark needam" <mallory at gocubs.org>
> User-Agent: Rodriquezmail v9.8
> X-Accept-Language: en-us
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: "geraldo tijerina" <marino at swsltd.com>
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> Content-Type: text/plain;
>     charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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