Most probably your email domain was simply hijacked by a virus. Of course it could be a script-kiddie doing a denial of service against some guys email account (or accounts).
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 15:14, Joshua Gitlin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello Everyone... I haven't posted in a while. Good to be back :) > > I've been getting all sorts of weird bounces from my email server as of > last night... They're bounce messages that are bouncing, so my confused > email server (qmail) is sending them to me. > > The emails were all (originally) sent from various email addresses > under my domain that don't exist (nonsense addresses like > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and they were sent to AOL members (and who knows > who else). AOL is bouncing the messages "back" to me... although they > didn't even originate on my system... They're coming from a variety of > IP addresses, some of which appear to be in denmark. The messages read > something like this: > > "--PAH03624.1063911700/str-d10.mail.aol.com--" > > As far as I can tell, this has something to do with somebody trying to > figure out something about AOL's mail servers, and they're just using > my domain as a scapegoat... But I'm not really sure what's going on. > I'm worried that it's either a misconfiguration in my email server or > someone trying to do something nasty to one of my servers (and > succeeding). Any thoughts? Thanks guys! > > Joshua Gitlin > Website Developer/Designer > Webmaster, Glow Films, Inc > http://josh.tumaz.com/ > http://www.glowfilms.com/ > - - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) > > iEYEARECAAYFAj9qAyIACgkQdMO2CPVJoQ6RCACfZvAbSK3aTajkNDBBxGU3Tv/L > s0cAmwQtaGBWhoqz8kJ0BBMV/gCcfxDp > =Y9hi > - - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > - - ----------- > Due to the recent increase in spam and falsely sent email, I now PGP > Sign all of my outgoing mail to prove my identity. This means that you > will see a small line of code below all mail you receive from me; this > line of code proves that I am who I say I am. For more information, > please visit http://www.pgp.com/ or http://www.gnupg.org/ > > > > - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) > > iEYEARECAAYFAj9qA0MACgkQdMO2CPVJoQ7o2ACfSE7bGGw+oVBGSRNDbA2nlx9S > RV8AnRi25ZhTjKZ/Mg3UGOGqmzvq26dA > =V07M > - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) > > iEYEARECAAYFAj9qBAcACgkQdMO2CPVJoQ4CCwCdHRD/CPAEX9TTe5bLKFRnrIue > 52wAnjme1wO5A/9dw5wRCFuq3IKkQOl9 > =x00L > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
