There's nothing you can do to stop it save for examining the headers and reporting the person to his/her isp. The trouble is that they've more than likely spoofed that information also and/or are relaying through a third-party.
Ian ------------ Dr Ian Firla Robert Graves Trust | "A partial count of the software available St John's College, Oxford | in just one noncommerical Linux system OX1 3JP - +44-(0)7855-310565 | would have cost about $1.9 billion to develop http://www.robertgraves.org | ... the way Microsoft does it" Bruce Perens On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Hailong Li wrote: > Hi Jim, > Happy New Year! > Thank you for your message! What should I do about it? How can I stop it? > Thanks a lot! > Hailong > > >> Hi there, > I am wondering why it happened like this: someone sent a email to me with an > email address that has the same domain name with my email address, but actually > there is no that user account on the email server. For example, the domain name > of my email server is xyz.com, there is no "stranger" account on this email > server, but I received an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? > Thank you in advance and happy holiday! > Hailong > > >Oh, anyone can send an email claiming to be from anyone@anyplace. Such messages > are almost always spam or viruses. Real people don't need to hide their true > identity when sending emails.If you are really curious, take a look at the headers > of the email > message. You will probably see that it originated from some remote machine > someplace, having nothing at all to do with your domain or network. > > >Kind Regards, > >Jim Roberts > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Seawolf-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
