Sendmail

How to tell if sendmail is sending emails?

[scraulb]

Hi,

I am getting lots of spam that appears to be coming from my servers.

Is there a way to see if the email actually did come from my servers?

I have looked in /var/log/maillog but it does not seem to say? (or I dont know how to look)

I am using Fedora Core 4 with sendmail and UW IMAP.

Thanks

[scraulb]

Anybody have any ideas?

[apprentice]

That would be useful for me to know as well! Someone hijacked my Perl contact form recently which was using Sendmail - so I had to take it down.

Another issue that I have at the moment with Sendmail is that most of the times I receive an email, it comes over twice. As I said, that happens most of the times, but not always! I use the Pegasus client and whenever I get the duplicate email it also seems that one of the duplicate emails is slightly bigger i.e. 0.1 to 0.5 kilobytes more; both emails also have identical date/time stamp. This looks to me like a config rather than a spam issue and although not as critical, I would still like to know how to fix that - which will also save me a few kilobytes per day of wasted bandwidth.

Regards.

[barns101]

most of the times I receive an email, it comes over twice

My host is having that problem, too, although it only affects a small(ish) number of emails. I'd be interested to know if someone could shed some light on it, because the host has not been able to figure it out yet.

[apprentice]

Hehe, I, on the other hand haven't even reported it to my host yet, mostly because I know they won't bother much about something so relatively insignificant. Instead I tried to find an answer by Googling around - unfortunately, unsuccessfully so far.

Maybe is an known issue/bug with the particular version of Sendmail used by the host!? The latest one is 8.13.8, which I doubt if its anywhere near to the one my host uses. Maybe they believe if it ain't broke, don't fix it:)

Regards,
Jason