Forwarded mail account delay and unauthorized mail in outgoing queue

Two issues I'm having and can't pin down:
1. One of the accounts I have has his mail forwarded to another account, recently there has been quite a delay in him receiving his mail, is there anything in the server set-up that could be delaying the sending of his messages out?
2. I am finding a lot of messages that are not from accounts on the server (obvious spam accounts) and are not being sent to accounts on the server. How can I have the server only accept requests to send mail from authorized users.
Thanks in advance for any help on these issues.

Regarding first issue of delays, you can get more info in a couple of ways....
1. Get your client to expand a 'late' received message to show full headers and then forward this to you. You will be able to see from the headers where the delay is happening since every receipt along the line is time stamped.
2. Search your server's mail.log for your client's incoming/outgoing mail. You will be able to fully track the progress through your server, culminating in the final sending to their account box (or relay out if being forwarded). See below for info on tracing messages through mail.log.
Regarding second issue, your mynetworks contains the subnet 216.153.138.0/24. This subnet contains all 254 public IPs from 216.153.138.1-254. I doubt if that is what you want since any public IP in that range can relay through your server freely. Maybe it is just the one IP you want? If so, just specify the IP and drop the "/24".
Apart from that, the only way someone can relay out to a domain outwith your 'mydestination' list is to authenticate as legitimate user first. If the outgoing 'spam' is not coming from one of the opened public IPs then you may well have a cracked username/password. There are other possibilities too, like a spamming local computer or hacked server, so more info would be required to diagnose. If you scan through the mail.log, are there a LOT of messages getting sent out all during the same one period? (like several per minute for twenty minutes or longer).
EDIT: Also, take at look at Pterobyte's 'Frontline Spam Defense' doc at http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/category/4/18/62/
Excellent guide on how to tighten up your anti-spam.
david
TRACING MESSAGES PROGRESS THROUGH MAIL.LOG
When a connection is first made you will get the following log message...
Aug 26 15:38:32 blue postfix/smtpd\[13201\]: connect from mail.hostname\[194.97.214.186\]
After the 'rcpt to' command is given by the sending server (which is done prior to sending actual mail message) then you will see this log message...
Aug 26 15:39:10 blue postfix/smtpd\[13201\]: 40329F9A2D: client=mail.hostname\[194.97.214.186\]
Note that the same smtpd process number (13201) is used for both these messages.
After end of 'data' command, i.e., message completed, then you get...
Aug 26 15:39:33 blue postfix/cleanup\[13205\]: 40329F9A2D: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 26 15:39:33 blue postfix/qmgr\[13190\]: 40329F9A2D: from=<[email protected]>, size=357, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Note the message id (40329F9A2D) links this to the previous log message.
Thereafter you get the handoff to amavisd (on 127.0.0.1) for spam analysis , etc. followed by delivery to local mailbox.
So to trace the history of an email, you often start at the more recent event, where the "from=" gives you the senders email address. You note the message id and look back for the previous smtpd message which uses this. This message, in turn, will give you the smtpd process number which enables you to find the very first contact.

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