Correction.. I believed wrong. Wasn't fixed in 7.06. My bad. Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale McDiarmid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] OT(?): suspicious x-rcpt-to
> Hello... > > I admit I don't know much about X-RCPT-TO, but it's time I learn, because... > > An employee is getting messages where the TO is > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and the X-RCPT-TO is > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The username is the same. > > She's gotten two so far, both from two different addresses, and each of the > TOs are different. No attachments. The messages are suspiciously generic > and short. For instance: "Fred, Thanks again for lunch it was great. > Steve". (Oddly enough, "Steve" is not the same name as the message's TO). > Looking up the TOs domain's A and MX record doesn't show anything unusual, > and nothing points to my domain or ip. I suspect it's some ploy to get my > employee to reply (which she has to one of them), to validate her address > for spamming, but that's just a guess. > > Can anyone help me understand X-RCPT-TOs, including thier > vulnerabilities? Can anyone explain these messages? > > Thx, > D. > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
