Strange relay messages in qmail mailserver

[James McDonald]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:56:37PM -0800, Shawn Tayler wrote:
> 
> Thats my perspective too.  I can find no signs of a rootkit or anything new
> on the system.. I shut off relelaying for evrything but local addresses and
> 127.0.0.1 and tried all the requisitie relay checkers to no avail...  
> 
> Vary strange indeed.

I was looking at this on google and it appears that many spam lists return an answer about spam using the 127.0.0.x range.

 http://www.email-policy.com/Spam-black-lists.htm

So your qmail install perhaps has RBL's configured and this is a natural result of it querying a black list.