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How to find malicious PHP script that sends emails from my domain?

My organization mail has been blocked by a malicious PHP script for several days. I learned that spam messages are sent via the mail() function. How can I find and delete this script on my server? I ...
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Best way to restrict/manage PHP apps to use my postfix?

I want to allow PHP apps to send mail but under very restricted conditions. And I don't want to allow sendmail-like command for PHP apps (I'm using chrooted PHP and it's too much headache), thus I ...
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Centos Apache sending spam from my server [duplicate]

This question is not a duplicate of the other, the other is general, this is very specific. my question is similar to - Who or what is sending spam from my server ( CentOS / Apache / suPHP ) but ...
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Mitigating spam on Linux server where all MTA's (Postifix, PHP Mail() function) etc. are disabled [duplicate]

We have a Debian Squeeze server running a fairly standard LAMP stack (back in the days it was set up using the Perfect Server guide at Howtoforge, so we're using ISPConfig as our backend admin panel) ...
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How to detect which PHP script is sending SPAM [duplicate]

A php script is sending tons of emails. I want to detect what is the source. All emails are sent by the use www-data which the user used by apache. When I check process, I have this result : www-data ...
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Mail being marked as spam by gmail but only from certain addresses [closed]

I am sending the same message through the PHP mail() function using two different addresses in the header. When I send the email with [email protected] it is marked as spam by gmail but when I send ...
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Blocking PHP mailer spam using iptables

I host a public-facing web server running Debian Wheezy, and latest versions of Postfix, Apache, PHP, Spamassassin, ClamAV, rootkit hunter. Apache is configured with a handful of vhosts, each tied to ...
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How to configure SPF and DKIM to prevent mail going to spam folder

When creating a mail with PHPMailer my emails are getting sent to the spam folder of my recipients mailbox I have been told I need to configure my SPF and DKIM correctly, I think I have done this ...
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What Does 'HELO_LH_HOME' Means In Spamassassin's result?

I'm trying to send emails from PHPMailer using php on my IIS server. But My emails are going to spam, So I've used spamassasin to detect what is wrong? and here is the result: pts rule name ...
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How to findout where spam is coming from with EXIM?

I've tracked down the user which was sending out spam but I am wondering how can I determine where the script is that is doing it? I ran a scan looking for the mail() function but found nothing. ...
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mail server Best practices PTR and SPF

I have 2 domain names in my server : domain1.com is the main domain that I am using as a nameserver (ns1.domain1.com and ns2.domain1.com) and domain2.com (I am using it to host my web application ...
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How to find out where mystery SPAM scripts are coming from? [duplicate]

I am the datacenter manager at a small ISP and we have been having an issue with mystery scripts sending out SPAM on our server. These PHP scripts will appear mysteriously in /tmp as well as sometimes ...
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postfix sending mails to unknown addresses

I was checking my munin tables and saw a huge list of deferred mails in postfix and looking into /var/log/mail.log gave me an idea: I am sending mails to unknown mail addresses: Dec 23 08:21:32 ...
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uploading php files into my root folder and sending spam [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My server’s been hacked EMERGENCY i do not understand how but someone is uploading a php file into the public_html directory of my CentOS 6 server like statisticsuQPo.php ...
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PHP Web Mail going to spam folder

I was working for my college website, and I wrote a php script that sends email using php mail function. But the problem is, all the emails that I send are going into the recipients spam/junk Folder. ...
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How to solve/disable spam sending with my postfix server on linux

I am quite new in setting up e-mail server on linux - I barely set up the whole think to get it working and connected it with my domain and php script which uses PHPMailer 5.2.1. In my setting I am ...
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What should be the spf record for my domain?

I have my own registered domain. I have a dedicated IP for my domain. I use a shared hosting service for my website. I want to send mail with php's function mail();. I have created one email account ...
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Indepth Analysis: Prevent mail from being flagged as spam

I want to start an indepth discussion on all ways of avoiding mail being flagged as spam. I have done most of what i knew to prevent mail from being listed as spam. i have tried the following 1) ...
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how to track down a spamming script?

My server sent 83,000 spam emails last night, I've been trying to track down the culprit, but I'm not sure how to find out exactly. in the logs the "from" address is always something like @#! the ...
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My server is sending spam

I have a dedicated server with CentOS+MySQL installed from godaddy.com. Recently I had some very weird problems: I installed a PHP application which has a thread that queries a MySQL database for ...
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All my domain's outgoing mail received as spam in gmail/yahoo/hotmail

All my domain's outgoing mail received as spam. I am not bulk emailing or anything like that. I know very little about how email actually works under the hood and having been continually searching for ...
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Sending SPAM free mail through my website [duplicate]

I've been battling with this issue for couple of months. I need to send bulk mail (not spam) through my social network to users in situations like newsletters, site invitations (when user imports ...
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How to identify how our qmail queue is so big and how to deal with it

Some how our server is being over run by outgoing emails, which we think are spam. We normally use plesk to administer it but it is currently crashing. If we do a ps aux | grep 'qmail' We get ...
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choosing linux OS and webserver software

I want to build a new webserver (bear with me, I'm new to this): My demands are (prioritized list): 1. Security 2. Ease of use (Administration, configuration). 3. Speed General features needed: - ...
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Disallowing proxies from POSTing

I want to disallow proxies and spambots from posting in my website. What is the best way to do so? I've downloaded a blacklist and my first idea was to disable each of ips in my .htaccess file, but ...
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why spamc keeps getting me 0/0 when I test it?

on my centos 5 I've installed spamassassin and I want to execute it from php using the command line client. The problem is that each time I run it, I get as result: 0/0 here is how I run it echo ...
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