How to Reduce SPAM Mails

rasanjanad · Feb 24, 2017

Hello Guys,

I have this problem within few days. Some one sending spam mails over the my server. may i know how to track him? "Magic Spam" tool will be solution for me?

24x7CSM · Feb 24, 2017

You are receiving spams OR your server is being used for spamming ?

liveinhost · Feb 24, 2017

Do you have the root access to the server?
How many sites are hosted in your server?
Mainly the spamming are coming from outdated wordpress plugins. Try to update all the outdated plugins.
If there is any active spamming in the server you can find with the below command
tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep home

HostingWaves · Feb 27, 2017

There are three possibilities of outgoing spamming. Compromised email account, through malicious files uploaded in CMS, open mail relay (in rare cases). if you are using cpanel, run below command:
exim -bpc and see mail queue. If its high, you can check mail IDs using exim -bp. You can take any mail ID and run below command:

exim -Mvh Email_ID

it will show header info in which you will see if sender is showing cpanel username or email account. If its email account ,immediately change it's password. If it shows cpanel user, run below command:

cat /var/log/exim_mainlog | grep /home | grep cpanel_user

It will show the folder from which the script is sending spamming.

I didn't grep /home/user because on the server there may have /home/ /home2.

Hope, it will help you to trace spammer.

How to Reduce SPAM Mails

rasanjanad

Member

24x7CSM

Well-known member

rasanjanad

Member

liveinhost

Member

HostingWaves

Member

Latest posts New threads

Latest posts

New threads

Latest Hosting Offers New Reviews

Latest hosting offers

Popular Contributors - Past 30 Days

Sponsors

Tag Cloud