Re: [exim] re spamming

* Deepak Kapoor wrote (20/11/06 17:36):
>
> On 11/20/06, Peter Bowyer <peter@???> wrote:
>> On 20/11/06, Deepak Kapoor <deepak.chd@???> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > i have a web hosting user which is showing overused bandwidth inhis
>> > control panel, but whenever we analyse his mainlog for exim or
>> > rejectlog for exim we don't see that much activity for emails from his
>> > domain what do you thick could be the problem.
>>
>> Some other program than exim is using up the bandwidth?
> hi,
> thanx for replying to my query peter, but the control panel direct
> admin is showing that the bandwidth is used by the email, is it
> possible that lot email is sent to that particular domain with
> miscellaneous id which is bounced back that is counted towards the
> bandwidth

Wouldn't that show in the exim logs?

If a) the bandwidth is being used for e-mail, and b) exim isn't using
the bandwidth, then I'd say some program other than exim is doing
e-mail. Is it port 25 traffic? Inbound or outbound? Maybe a cgi script
is responsible.

This is a wild guess, of course.

Chris