I haven't used XAMPP, but I suspect it's Mercury server has a default config already setup.
That line is the core process of the mail server processing an email.
It must have been received somehow, I would suspect via the SMTP server module listening on the default port (25) of your webserver.
If you have no reason to be getting SMTP deliveries to this ip address, then you have been discovered by a bot that checks for port 25 responses on random addresses, and then proceeds to try to send lots of spam. If the next line in the Core Process log shows a delivery to a non-local address then your server is an open relay and you will rapidly find yourself on all sorts of blacklists.
First of all, close port 25 to the outside world, then configure Mercury to suit, before allowing access from the net.
<p>I haven't used XAMPP, but I suspect it's Mercury server has a default config already setup.</p><p>That line is the core process of the mail server processing an email.</p><p>It must have been received somehow, I would suspect via the SMTP server module listening on the default port (25) of your webserver.</p><p>If you have no reason to be getting SMTP deliveries to this ip address, then you have been discovered by a bot that checks for port 25 responses on random addresses, and then proceeds to try to send lots of spam. If the next line in the Core Process log shows a delivery to a non-local address then your server is an open relay and you will rapidly find yourself on all sorts of blacklists.
</p><p>First of all, close port 25 to the outside world, then configure Mercury to suit, before allowing access from the net.&nbsp;</p>