[plug] Help with spam

[Evan Lau]

Hi guys again,

Suspected that this was a FormMail problem....so looked into the Apache
logs and found this:

aca2b934.ipt.aol.com - - [27/Jul/2001:00:55:57 +0800] "GET
/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl?recipient=IAmThAOnE14 at aol.com,Ramblin725 at aol.com,Shorty
1271 at aol.com,BabybluesJL at aol.com,FFCraig441 at aol.com,MahLei at aol.com,Wardpmks@
aol.com,Dinolawinter at aol.com,Gratefulrdog at aol.com,Mike4ya at aol.com,ToneKapone
21 at aol.com,ChrisZ1217 at aol.com,Hap4u4evr at aol.com,NghtMyst00 at aol.com,WATTmstr@
aol.com,Balich at aol.com,Fphibbs10 at aol.com,Princess22522 at aol.com,Snowboardstud
@aol.com,Dsoccerchick15 at aol.com,&email=dfybfnbaid at aol.com&subject=The+Pictur
e+Database+++++++++gklp&=Quality+pics+%3CA+HREF%3D%22aol%3A%2F%2F1223%3A2626
0%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fpicturedatabase.persik.ru%22%3Ehere%3C%2Fa%3E+at+the+pictur
e+database<br><br>1956 HTTP/1.1" 200 1099 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5;
Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

So we've been getting "SpamCop" messages from AOL even though the
bad guys are from aol. I haven't worked that much with Apache so could
anyone tell me how I could prevent this....either in the httpd.conf file or
the
FormMail.pl file?

Cheers,
Evan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <tony at cantech.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Help with spam


> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Evan Lau wrote:
>
> > There are plenty more examples of this. Of course, we don't want this to
> > continue as we don't want to end up on the "blacklist" of the Internet.
> >
> > The problem is I don't get what "from=www" means, along with the part
> > that says relay=www at localhost. If anyone could help out with that please
> > do :) I guess the more important issue is how do we stop this. I have
tried
> > the "access" file of sendmail, but doesn't quite seem to work.
>
>
> Is it possible that you have a form to email script on this host.  If so i
may
> be accepting email from anywhere.
>
>
> Yours Tony.
>
> /*
>  * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the
>  * same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
>  * --Albert Einstein
>  */
>
>