[CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

Sun Mar 3 22:06:31 UTC 2013
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 03.03.2013 22:49, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:

> 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.

Such a misbehaviour would be caused by a misconfigured apache proxy setup.

Alexander