[horde] How to find the author?
Luis Zarrabeitia
kyrie at uh.cu
Wed Aug 20 20:49:06 UTC 2008
<short story>
I have an email (spam) that I must trace back to it's author. The email was
sent through one of my horde/imp installations, and I'm certain that it was
not tampered with after it was sent (I grabbed it out of the mailqueue), so
the headers are intact. The spammer, however, seems to have changed the
address, so the From: and Return-path: are faked. Is there any log file where
I can find the original sender? (i.e, SquirrelMail leaves a header on the
message saying who was the original sender). If there is no log by default,
is there a way to turn it on?
</short story>
<long story>
I act as a provider for a few faculties at my university. I don't have direct
control over those Horde/IMP installations, but upon request, I can access
the servers to audit them. I do control the mail gateway they all use (MX and
smarthost).
It seems that a few days ago, a spammer guessed the password of some of the
users, changed their identities, and began using their accounts to send spam.
I can notify the affected users that their password has been compromised (and
temporarily disable them), if I can learn their identities (usernames). It
happened with Horde/IMP and SquirrelMail users, there is a header on
squirrelmail generated emails with the real username, but with horde/imp, I
haven't managed to find them. So far, my only options are to either block
access to the webmails from the internet, or to deny access to the mail rely
to the whole faculty.
</long story>
Any help you can give me would be very appreciated (even hints about how can I
configure my postfix to prevent this from happenning... perhaps per user/per
hour quotas?)
Cheers,
--
Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie)
Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH.
http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie
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