[CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

Sun Mar 3 23:57:57 UTC 2013
Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. <eoconnor25 at gmail.com>

On 03/03/2013 04:49 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 03/03/2013 04:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 03.03.2013 22:30, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>>> I am trying to recall back at least 2 years, and my notes are poor, and
>>> my searching appears to be worst...
>>>
>>> Seems I recall that last when I set up my apache server, the spammers
>>> were posting to it so it would send out the spam on port 25.  There was
>>> some conf that I did to block this, but I did not document it, and I
>>> can't find any reference to this
>> what are you speaking about?
>> apache is a WEBSERVER and has NOTHING to do with email
> There was an attack, and if you search you will find references to it,
> where the spammers post to your web server in such a way that they relay
> out port 25.  They send to your port 80, but you send out port 25.  For
> example:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-173601.html
>
> My old server has been running smoothly for over two years, but it is
> time to bring the software current.  I did all the work on this back
> then, or maybe before and copied from my earlier server.  This time I am
> trying to build everything clean and document every change I make.
>
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If / when I get the guts to build my own Apache web server...I would 
think that the ONLY way to do it would be to document EVERYTHING....sort 
of as a "Just-In-Case" policy?....or is it only after you've built 
it?...and when you make CHANGES to your server....THAT'S when you 
document everything?....


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