It looks like someone is just using the name, not using your server.
There isn't much you can do about that.

-e

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, John Hunter wrote:

>
> I saw a post on comp.lang.python from [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Now
> goddmamit I *AM* ace.bsd.uchicago.edu and there ain't no Henk around
> here.  Months ago, I was shut down for being an open relay, and I
> tried my damnedest to shut the buggars out, ran some relay tests on my
> system and passed.  But now I fear that I am being abused again (can't
> figure out why someone would spoof a From header to c.l.python with my
> server).
>
> Below is the header.  Does anyone know what is going on here?
>
> For the record, my email setup is too complicated.  For historical
> reasons, we use ace.bsd.uchicago.edu as our outgoing mail name though
> that server is retired.  It has it's MX bit set to
> nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu which is a firewall/router that forwards port
> 25 requests into a LAN server in the 192.* domain.  Since I can't
> devote my life to figuring out how to configure my mail (sendmail), I
> have invariably screwed it up.
>
> John Hunter
>
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