[ale] Hacked to spam??

[John Mills]

Jonathan -

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> > I've been seeing those "doing -bs" lines since setting up my 
> > mail service, but I can't account for those massive numbers 
> > of messages.

> > I'm running 'sendmail-8.11.6-23.73' from the RH rpms, and use 
> > 'fetchmail-5.9.0-21.7.3' to collect mail from my ISP's POP server.
 
> Are you routing fetchmail messages through the local smtp engine?

Yes - they are delivered to my local 'sendmail' and thence to my readers. 
The idea is for 'fetchmail' to collect incoming mail every ~10 minutes and 
'sendmail' to queue it locally for any user (really, for me).

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu