[CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

Robert Moskowitz

rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Mar 3 21:53:28 UTC 2013


On 03/03/2013 04:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 3/3/2013 1:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> 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.
>
> a webserver can't send email unless you've got email cgi or forms on/in
> your webpages

This is probably such an old attack, that 'modern' apache builds block 
it by default. It had nothing to do with email cgi or forms.




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