Thanks Scott,

I think that Daniel Donnelly's reply explained that it was spam. I only 
relay for specific IP addresses so hopefully we are not being used as a 
relay of spam...I just x'd out our internal IP address on the header...I 
have WebShield relaying to imail on the same server....sorry for the confusion.

Kevin


At 02:13 PM 11/08/2001, you wrote:

>>I have received the enclosed e-mail a couple of times. I have several 
>>rules to catch e-mails and for some reason this one gets caught...but I 
>>cannot tell why. Is this a virus or spammer? If it is a spammer why would 
>>they send the Message?
>
>First question, why did it get caught:  That I can't answer without 
>knowing what your rules are.
>
>Second question:  Likely a spammer.  "wantme69" sounds like a spammer's 
>address, plus the "kwfdca" in the subject (a short string of random 
>characters) is a common "signature" of spammers.
>
>Third question:  If it is a spammer, it could simply be that they are 
>harvesting E-mail addresses on your server using a poorly designed 
>harvesting program; check the logs to see if there are huge amounts of 
>"RCPT TO:"'s without many actual deliveries.
>
>>Received: from mail.stevenstransport.com [xx.xxx.x.xx] by 
>>mail.stevenstransport.com
>>(SMTPD32-6.00) id AE949B033C; Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:46:44 -0600
>>Received: FROM ns2.ehostingtime.com BY mail.stevenstransport.com ; Mon 
>>Nov 05 12:46:42 2001 -0600
>
>It sounds like the spam is coming from one of your servers, if you're 
>blocking the IP address!
>
>                                                    -Scott
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