Re: [SOLVED] Re: Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-26 17:56:38, Peter Langfelder wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Tony Nelson > wrote: > > > > > Someone or something, possibly you, used the "mail" (or "mailx") > > command to send an email to "y...@emailaddress.com", with the > > subject "Photos".  The address appears to be a def

[SOLVED] Re: Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: > > Someone or something, possibly you, used the "mail" (or "mailx") > command to send an email to "y...@emailaddress.com", with the subject > "Photos".  The address appears to be a default that should be filled in > with a real address.  This w

Re: Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-26 12:37:21, Peter Langfelder wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on my laptop where I don't use the local linux mail at > all (use webmail). Just got a message in the terminal > > You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/plangfelder > > so I look into /var/spool/mail/plangfelder and see this

Re: Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
> If you never ever used the mail server on the local laptop (.e.g sendmail) to > try to send email, then this does look suspicious. It seems that someone or > something is trying to use it to send email. > Is there anything under /var/spool/mqueue ? > > AC Well, I'm not sure about the use of send

Re: Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Armelius Cameron
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 12:37:21 Peter Langfelder wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on my laptop where I don't use the local linux mail at all > (use webmail). Just got a message in the terminal > > Anyone has an idea what's going on? Has my laptop been hacked and is > it being used to send sp

Weird mail - what's going on?

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Langfelder
Hi all, I'm working on my laptop where I don't use the local linux mail at all (use webmail). Just got a message in the terminal You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/plangfelder so I look into /var/spool/mail/plangfelder and see this: >From mailer-dae...@peter Tue Jan 26 01:05:11 2010 Return-