Could it be The Battle Of The Autoresponders Part II? Sort of an extended
mail loop. He sends to you, your respond and he responds to your response
.....ad infinitum.
Kevin Childers
NetQuick Customer Support.
(910) 486-7845
(888) 228-0312
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Help Please
> I am set to Relay for Addresses only and have
> our Class C's in there. I was just going through
> the spool directory and have hundreds of emails
> where our Imail Server is sending its canned
> Imail List response to a bad command sent to it.
> It is sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which
> is real strange. Then I get a corresponding bounce
> back from Excite.com saying the Postmaster@excite
> email was rejected because its box is over its quota!
> It sends this to the Imail List Server I think so the
> Imail List server and Excite's Mail server are looping
> back and forth and I mean hundreds of emails per
> minute! How can I break this loop? I can't figure
> it out.
>
> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
> Jim Smith - Cowtown Net
> 3044 Wichita Court
> Ft Worth, TX, 76140
> Voc 817-293-5192
> FAx 817-293-9076
> Yahoo IM jcs_cowtown
> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 1:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Help Please
>
>
> Jim
>
> What are your SMTP Security settings? the relay must be No Relay or
Relay
> for Addresses.
>
> It sure sounds like your sever has been hijacked, but I�ve just tried to
> relay through 209.144.6.178 and was denied.
>
> Maybe you�ve got a spammer on one of your internal ip's??
>
> Len
>
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