Detect if your mailserver is used as a spambot
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To detect if your mail server is being used as a spambot, read this article.
Postfix
If you are using the postfix mta, you can detect if your server is used as a spambot:
- send yourself a mail
- see which log file contains the information about sent mail:
ls -ltr /var/log
- you might see a file named mail.info. mail.info is used in this example.
- read your log file and see if other people use your mail server to send mail:
cat /var/log/mail.info | grep relay=
- verify that no bot has send mails from your computer:
cat /var/log/mail.info | grep -E "^.* .* .* .*: .*: to="