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How to Find spam activity in Plesk (Postfix)

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Find spam activity in Plesk (Postfix)

This post helps you to find spam activity in Plesk. Plesk supports two Mail Transfer Agents (MTA). They are Postfix and Qmail. The newer versions of Plesk installed with Postfix mail server by default.

I have already written a post about Useful Postfix commands. You can see that thread before proceeding. Also, to identify the spam source in Plesk, you need to follow the below steps.

1. Create /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-wrapper script:

You can use your favourite editor to create the script. I am using VIM here.

vim /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-wrapper

Add the following into it.

#!/bin/sh
(echo X-Additional-Header: $PWD ;cat) | tee -a /var/tmp/mail.send|/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-bin "$@"

2. Create a log file

touch /var/tmp/mail.send
chmod a+rw /var/tmp/mail.send

3. Set the executable permission for the wrapper script

chmod a+x /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-wrapper

4. Rename the sendmail.postfix script and link it to the wrapper script

mv /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-bin
ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-wrapper /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

Wait for some time (10 minutes to 60 minutes) and check the log file /var/tmp/mail.send. Also, revert the sendmail.postfix script back.

rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
mv /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix-bin /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

To find the spam originating directory, run the following command:

grep X-Additional /var/tmp/mail.send | grep `cat /etc/psa/psa.conf | grep HTTPD_VHOSTS_D | sed -e 's/HTTPD_VHOSTS_D//' `

The above command will show you the spam originating directory consisting of the problematic PHP script.

That’s it!

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