Sendmail Logging

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Apr 20 11:05:30 IST 2002


At 22:30 19/04/2002, you wrote:
>I have a sendmail box that acts as a smarthost.  Is there a way to tell
>where the e-mail originated from.  (the client's IP address?)  I have
>user that sent SPAM but I'm not sure who it was at this point.

If you have sendmail's logging level set high enough (try 14), then your
maillog should show every incoming SMTP connection.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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