[BlueOnyx:23096] Re: SMTPAuth problem

Michael Stauber mstauber at blueonyx.it
Thu Aug 8 18:38:16 -05 2019


Hi Michael,

> I have a user whose account was hacked to SPEW spam out. I have changed
> the password but the SPAM keeps coming. Is the password cached anywhere
> or is there a process I need to restart?

A password change or suspend of the user prevents him immediately from
using SMTP-Auth. However: There may still be emails in the mailqueue
that are still waiting to be sent.

You might want to manually delete all files from /var/spool/mqueue/ to
clean that out.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber



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