sendmail and spam

From: sunmanagers mailing list (sunmanagers@chrysek.dyndns.org)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 10:57:59 EDT


Hello folks, I have a small problem, I have a sendmail server and I did
notice a lot of messages in a mqueue, so I started to look into them and
there are over 1400 messages stuck with subject lines such as:
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk896rTBv007940:Subject: Re: PHAabmRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8AHCbhb004433:Subject: Re: PHAvpiRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk898SH0G016819:Subject: Re: PHAmhfRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89Bs7ho006724:Subject: Re: PHAeerRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89BriYV006672:Subject: Re: PHAznwRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8990uxY019754:Subject: Re: PHAgpkRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89G2Yxl003615:Subject: Re: PHAhplRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk897DSux009529:Subject: Re: PHAqaoRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89AmUBX030740:Subject: Re: PHAineRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk898NFab016359:Subject: Re: PHAdrmRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk897J2Zg009998:Subject: Re: PHAvipRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89CGuGI009392:Subject: Re: PHAforRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk897JJK6010015:Subject: Re: PHAawsRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89DO4N8018406:Subject: Re: PHAjpjRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89Bqx0V006602:Subject: Re: PHAfrsRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89BIGSq002677:Subject: Re: PHAfmsRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89Abpem029585:Subject: Re: PHAycoRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8A3h2F2005583:Subject: Re: PHAneiRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89BcrHW005002:Subject: Re: PHAxpdRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89BnnfS006245:Subject: Re: PHAczqRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk897ZD3n011708:Subject: Re: PHAgexRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89EKdQv024452:Subject: Re: PHAiceRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89EYthv025987:Subject: Re: PHAocsRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk897a0la011806:Subject: Re: PHAgexRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8C6Tadj007507:Subject: Re: PHAmovRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8C6GcRi006756:Subject: Re: PHAwyeRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8995qxS020256:Subject: Re: PHAlvdRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk897kYMe012700:Subject: Re: PHAafnRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8AGK15c031111:Subject: Re: PHAnxiRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk89MrP3n012318:Subject: Re: PHAvvlRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk897u4ff013652:Subject: Re: PHAltwRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8BHq6oZ029869:Subject: Re: PHAdrhRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8BNZKwe007079:Subject: Re: PHAtrrRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8980FHx013931:Subject: Re: PHAsvrRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8983C2q014561:Subject: Re: PHAxpaRMACY
/var/spool/mqueue/dfk8983jvR014602:Subject: Re: PHAjwzRMACY

Is there any way to add a rule to sendmail and block emails based on a
subject pattern such as this one? spammers are trying to change pattern by
changing 3 characters in subject line...

Also is there any script that i could just stop sendmail and remove those
1400+ messages? I know that there are not only the files listed but header
files etc. So if I just remove those files it would not do any good so I
guess I need to replace first 2 characters of the file name to replace one
of the emails...

Thanks so much for any help.

Chris
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