cshaywood is the legitimate user.  I set up a nobody alias and trapped the
email (which stopped it from attempted redelivery and solved that problem).
He had sent an email to someone and put a space in the address.  It was
being rejected and Imail didn't stop receiving it.
Per  IMail support, "Yes, the space could have been the issue. IMail
probably didn't know how to handle the message. This is something I will
send to testing"

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Continual attempts to send to bad address


>
> >You also said: "This isn't an attempt to send the mail -- it's a remote
> >computer trying to  send YOU mail.  68.62.182.115 is at fault here"
>
> Yes, that's right.
>
> >Why is it attempting to send it to RUCN [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a
> >sharpcom.com user, when there are no such mail addresses for this server?
>
> I have no idea why.
>
> If you have no user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", then you should simply ban
> 68.62.182.115 or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let them know what is going
> on.  They might be a spammer, or someone just trying to test your
> mailserver for weaknesses.  Your guess is as good as mine.
>
>                                                     -Scott
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