At my work, I receive quite a few postmaster replies that my email
message can't be received because of a bad email address. Largely these
messages have a subject that is pornographic, and the recipient is not
in my address book. Now I got my first reply like this from my home
computer.
To explain, here is the reply just received at home:
=== begin copy of message ===========
This is the Postfix program at host mail-vw.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The Postfix program
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host 130.54.116.11[130.54.116.11] said: 550
5.1.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown (in reply to RCPT
TO command)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail-vw.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 371095CCC
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; (deleted: my email address)
Arrival-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:41:50 +0900 (JST)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host 130.54.116.11[130.54.116.11] said: 550 5.1.1
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO
command)
=== end copy of message =================
This one doesn't have a subject; the recipient is unknown to me.
Has someone hacked my computer? Or has someone simply somehow used my email
address as a return address to conceal the actual sender?
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