Recently we received a reply to an email we never sent.
It is very, very common for spammers to send out E-mail using someone else's return address. Occasionally, it will be your address they use. Hopefully, it's for a very short period of time, and not for a lot of E-mail.
And the mail server history is (recieved by headers): Received: from chappell.com ([61.171.64.111]) by rly-xl02.mx.aol.com (v95.1) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXL21-5b53f20efec1a4; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 04:53:08 -0400
This isn't quite as common (the mailserver identifying itself as if it were your domain), but it does happen.
Note that chappell.com is being spoofed as 61.171.64.111 (which we trace to China). The spoofing I think just the standard "helo chappell.com" SMTP greeting -- IE, it's easy to lie about.
Unfortunately, everything except the IP is very easy to lie about.
Do we need to (*can* we) do anything about this? It wasn't sent from here, but I wonder if we'll end up in a blackhole list because it claims to be from us.
No, you won't end up in any blacklists. There isn't much that can be done about this, short of legal action (which in most cases is nearly impossible -- especially if the spammer is in China!).
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