For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 13:12, James Marcinek wrote:
> > First,
sorry the thread got away, I was thinking that the issue was
> >
related not trying to steal it...
> >
> > I read my maillogs
and see that relaying is denied when I see the
> > attempts. However
sometimes I get mail delivery errors for emails I
> > haven't sent?
What I was thinking is that someone could do a telnet in
> > to my port
25 and use my domain to send from... (as if the user where
> > from my
domain...)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
James
>
> What you are seeing are the results of forged email
headers. Your
> address was used by some other system in the from field of
an email sent
> to a third party. The system where the recipient of the
forged email
> was sent bounced the message, probably because the spammer
was guessing
> at valid email addresses. Since your email address was in
the from
> field the message was bounced back to you not the spammer
system.
>
> So the original email was never sent from you or your
server. This is
> all normal traffic today, unfortunately.
>
> Nothing to worry about unless you actually see messages in your
log
> files being sent to people you don't know.
Scott,
That makes me feel better. BTW are you in central FL( cfl.rr.com)? I live in
Tampa
>
> --
> Scot L. Harris
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>
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better than brick, and feasts
> most subtly on the human will."
> --
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