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Cubic
03-08-06, 11:57 AM
We've dealt with a few spammers opening accounts with us or our resellers and then sending out a bunch of phishing spam, but what hosting company hasn't?

I recently came upon a way to easily track who is sending out e-mail as the user "nobody" which can help you find out which user is sending the spam. Please note that this is only usable by companies that run their own server or have a VPS.

You can view how to set up the spam logging here (http://www.webhostgear.com/232_print.html).

If hope you all find this as helpful as I have found it.
Dediwebhost
03-09-06, 10:21 AM
This is an interesting script. It could be something that we can use.

I appreciate it.
Equonix
03-09-06, 01:57 PM
Interesting Perl Script may when I have time I'll review the perl source code... looks like it works from a quick glance.
RazerHost
03-17-06, 02:43 PM
Thank

This could go to good use :)
n2972s
03-18-06, 01:01 PM
This does come in handy.

Gustave
billiam2003
03-23-06, 06:22 AM
Yes something like this could be very handy. I have had to deal with a few spammers in my hosting experiance and its a big mess. Not just trying to get the server to where people can send emails because the server has been blacklisted, but also to ensure that you get the mess cleaned up from all of the emails that the server is trying to process, and deal with all the bounce back emails. Its a big resource hog and causes problems for other users. Does anyone know of something that would allow you to restrict how many emails a domain can send each day? This might limit spammers and such.
urlhost
03-23-06, 08:46 AM
yes we would be very interested in this, we had our share of spammers as well :[:
mhale
03-25-06, 08:31 PM
PostINI has outgoing protection as well as incoming.

There are many providers who offer this, including me ;)
TonyB
03-26-06, 09:55 AM
Well rarely do the spammers get past our checks but our resellers tend to have a spammer here and there. For us we just use http://choon.net/php-mail-header.php it's great for finding the location of the spam and can help find customers who have simply been exploited rather than their intentions to send out spam.
Grumps
08-19-06, 01:21 PM
appreciated the guide above, installed onto all my dedi!
xtremeluger
08-19-06, 03:45 PM
Thats awesome, spammers are such a pain. Is there a way you could ip ban them? This is probably easily bypassed with proxies and such but i'm sure it would discourage them a little or at least let them know that you're on to them. Good luck getting rid of them.
ServerTweak
11-04-06, 07:32 AM
Thank you


Looking into this now
Cubic
11-04-06, 07:51 AM
Well rarely do the spammers get past our checks but our resellers tend to have a spammer here and there. For us we just use http://choon.net/php-mail-header.php it's great for finding the location of the spam and can help find customers who have simply been exploited rather than their intentions to send out spam.


Thank you very much for this. I have actually found this easier to use than what I had mentioned in my original post in this thread. Rather than searching through a spam log to try to find when the spamming happened, you can just check the headers on one of the bounced messages. Very useful! Thanks!