Re: More on spam
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 14:03 GMT, Anthony Campbell penned:
>
> The problem has appeared in the last few weeks, since when I've been
> seeing an increasing number of messages to say that outgoing mail has
> not been delivered (see below for some examples). None of these are
> messages I have sent myself (obviously). The failures are only a small
> subset of the emails that are being sent, presumably "successfully",
> because when I ran mailq this morning there were 20 or 30 spam
> messages waiting to go (I deleted them manually, of course). I looked
> at these before deleting them; they were a very mixed bunch indeed, so
> it can hardly be just one spammer.
>
I'm pretty sure that the messages you're receiving simply indicate that
a spammer is spoofing your address in their From field.
If you want to be sure you're not acting as an open relay, you can go to
http://www.ordb.org/submit/
and submit your mail server. Note: if you *are* acting as an open
relay, they will put you on their list until you clean up your act, and
in the meantime some mail servers might not accept your mail.
--
monique
Unless you need to share ultra-sensitive super-spy stuff with me, please
don't email me directly. I will most likely see your post before I read
your mail, anyway.
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