Spam

[Dr-Host]

I think one of my servers is beening used as a spam server

how can I be sure and how can I make it more secure?

Thanks,
David

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Our latest release of exim (4.34) uses Jeff Lasmans new exim.conf and we've included a new exim.pl. Together they should help fight spam in both directions. There is a new feature such that you just create (or edit) /etc/virtual/limit and enter the maximum number of emails you want any user to send daily. DA will check and enforce this limit.

I don't believe DA clears out the /etc/virtual/usage directory daily, so you'd need to setup a cron to do that (so the daily usage is reset back to zero and they can keep on sending mail)

Once you get that setup, just check /etc/virtual/usage for the largest file and the name of the file will be the user who is sending out the emails.

Note: it will catch emails sent with mail() in php, so long as the scripts are stored below the users home directory.

John

[nobaloney]

Originally posted by DirectAdmin Support
Our latest release of exim (4.34) uses Jeff Lasmans new exim.conf
As of what day does/will newly purchased DA use 4.34?

I'm asking because I need to edit my announcement to advise people to not download it.

Jeff

[DirectAdmin Support]

We still are not including it with our default release because it has files that need to be parsed/rotated during tallies. This is not implemented in DA yet, so once we add that, then it will be included. Probably next release.

John

[nobaloney]

Can we go ahead and install it on our own, then?

Or should we wait?

If we can download it now, where is it :) ?

Thanks.

Jeff

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hi Jeff,

It's with the 4.34 release of exim. It's there, but with the "limit" file set to 0, it doesn't do anything yet :)

See the "updates" section of the forum.

John

[nobaloney]

I'll wait until you officially announce it then :).

Jeff