[wplug] Any Suggestion for DSL Service for Linux?

[jmh3 at linuxfreak.com]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Richard A. Bilonick wrote:

> I've had @Home for 2 or 3 years now and had beenr reasonably happy. That is,
> until I received an e-mail from them accusing me of running a mail server and
> sending span. They said someone complained that I was sending them spam. I sent
> them an e-mail asking who made this claim. So far I've haven't heard back from
> them (it's been over 1 week). As far as I can tell, I don't have a mail server
> running on my computer and I know I'm not spamming anyone.

if you are running sendmail, it is possible for your computer to be used
as a mail relay. this would enable people to send spam from your computer,
and it would appear that the spam was coming from you. a simple port scan
of your subnet would tell a would be spammer which ip's had mail
servers. by default redhat/mandrake come with sendmail turned on. you
could SAINT to scan your computer and tell you what services are running.


john