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Spammer got into my Webmail


From: Robin Polak <robin.polak () GMAIL COM>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:04:01 -0400

Hello,

   One of my webmail users was fooled into revealing his credentials to a
spammer and now I am dealing with the backlash of all this spam having left
our smtp servers as well as much mail still left in the outbound sendmail
queues.  Is there any advice that any of you could provide me as far as
filtering out the spam from my sendmail queues as well as any procedures I
could follow to counteract the effects of blacklisting such as a generally
checked whitelist?  In addition, as a result of this incident I have found a
flaw in the tracking of mail between our webmail (Horde/IMP), Cyrus IMAP,
and Sendmail.  What sort of suggestion could be made as far as effectively
being able to correlate my logs?  Is there a way to put a header into a
message leaving IMP indicating the user-name that was used to login to
Horde?  This would have been quite usefull since in some way the spammer was
able to spoof the From address in the message to be a yahoo.com  address.

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Robin Polak, Network Manager
College of Mount Saint Vincent
E-Mail: robin.polak () gmail com
V. 718-405-3293

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