On Friday 15 August 2003 19:58, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > Below is a part of message header: > > 1) me fetching it from telus > Received: from pop.telusplanet.net [199.185.220.248] > by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0) > for [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (single-drop); Tue, > 12 Aug > 2003 18:13:58 -0600 (MDT) > > 2) telus receiving it from shaw > Received: from localhost ([24.76.125.24]) by priv-edtnes44.telusplanet.net > > 24.76.125.24 is not a part of Telus network at all, > it's actually Shaw. > > I got several messages like that all with viruses, > and all having my email as return address. > > Just curious: is this "localhost" name > for an external server a sing of any telus problem?
no, more like a prob of the external server. My guess would be that the server is poorly configured and has its hostname set to localhost. AFAIK the name part of received headers is what the sending side sent during the HELO, that is why the ip adress is added in brackets afterwards > Thank you > k3n -- Arne 'zal' Hueggenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
