It could be that you are the BlindCC recipient based on a mailing list.
If you look at the actual header of the message you may be able to determine more.
More and more lists are sending messages "To" a bogus address or themselves and
BlindCC'ing everyone in their mailing list.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Burden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:49 AM
To: Suresh Ganu; 'GNATBOX Forum'
Subject: RE: Spam E-mail
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The "To" line that you see in your email has little or
nothing to do with the Address/Domain that the email
was delivered to.
Consider the following example. I telnet'd into the
SMTP port of my own mailserver. In this example, the
mail will be delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the rcpt to),
but the email client will show that it was sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (the "To:" line in the "Data" segment).
The email server doesn't typically look at the Data
segment -- that's left to the email client. There is
nothing that says that anything in the Data segment
has to match anything in the helo, mail from, or
mail to segments.
Mike Burden
Lynk Systems
http://www.lynk.com
(616)532-4985
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
lynk4300$ telnet mail.lynk.com 25
Trying mail.lynk.com...
Connected to mail.lynk.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 SMTP ready.
helo heaven.org
250 OK
mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 OK
rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 OK
data
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Test
This is a test.
.
250 OK
quit
221 Closing connection.
Connection closed by foreign host.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ganu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:15 PM
> To: 'GNATBOX Forum'
> Subject: Spam E-mail
>
>
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>
> I have been using GnatBox GB100(3.1.3) and E-mail proxy for
> atleast two
> years
>
> E-mail proxy has been set-up to accept e-mail only for my
> published domains.
> It has worked fine so far and according to logs, that's the
> only e-mail
> making to my e-mail server on the protected network.
>
> Now suddenly I am getting e-mail addressed to something like
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>
> WHY? Any clues?
>
> Thanks..
>
>
>
>
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