Am Mo, den 12.04.2004 schrieb Jonathan Ryshpan um 20:37:
> I recently received the following bounce message for a message I never
> sent. Is it possible that some component of my email system (fetchmail
> + sendmail + evolution) has been infected by a virus? Or has someone
> just forged my return address?
>
> Thanks - Jonathan Ryshpan
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: failure notice
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:04:23 +0000
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at admin.thenth.com.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> This address no longer accepts mail.
As others already replied it is caused by actual worms (running on
infected Windows[tm] machines) misusing your email address from the
address book.
And what you see too is the bad behaviour of qmail as MTA: it first
accepts the whole mail and later produces a bounce mail, hitting you
though you never sent the original mail.
Alexander
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