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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]