Spammer has relayed through my server using a forwarder (no real account) as authentication
An account hit it's email defer limit yesterday so I look at the outbound email and I see a load of email saying it's gone out from a local alias/forwarder (no email account).
Mail report shows
Sorry the post is not finished but it won't let me edit it in any shape or form! I was in the process of removing the exim log lines from 2018-10-31 13:10:57 onwards It was also meant to end with... How did they send this mail out? There is no user/password for the account ForwarderNoAccount@clientdomain.com and my server is not an open relay.
Event: success
Sender User: ClientUser
Sender Domain: clientdomain.com
Sender: ForwarderNoAccount@clientdomain.com
Sent Time: Oct 31, 2018 12:10:12 PM
Sender Host: SpammerIP
Sender IP: SpammerIP
Authentication: courier_login
Spam Score: 0
Recipient:recipientemail@anon.com
exim_maillog shows
2018-10-31 13:10:52 1gHqGo-0006LX-TY <= ForwarderNoAccount@clientdomain.com H=([SpammerIP]) [SpammerIP]:49169 P=esmtpa A=courier_login:ForwarderNoAccount@clientdomain.com S=1493978 T="Goods Order" for recipientemail@anon.com
2018-10-31 13:10:52 cwd=/var/spool/exim 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim -Mc 1gHqGo-msgID
2018-10-31 13:10:52 1gHqGo-msgID SMTP connection outbound 1540991452 1gHqGo-msgID clientdomain.com recipientemail@anon.com
Sorry the post is not finished but it won't let me edit it in any shape or form! I was in the process of removing the exim log lines from 2018-10-31 13:10:57 onwards It was also meant to end with... How did they send this mail out? There is no user/password for the account ForwarderNoAccount@clientdomain.com and my server is not an open relay.
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