On Mon, April 30, 2007 10:08 am, Neil Schneider wrote: > > Lan Barnes wrote: >> Forwarded in its entirety is this mail bounce notice. I need adult >> advice >> on what it means. It looks to me like a Canadian Doctor spam was sent >> > <snip> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host 139.98.9.13[139.98.9.13] said: 550 5.1.1 >> Recipient >> unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command) > > Unless these IP addresses belong to you, ignore these messages. I > suspect the bounce went to the "from" address (yours) instead of back > to the server it originated from. I occasionally see these addressed > to me. Unless you are running an open relay these are likely > misdirected bounces. >
If running an open relay is something one does actively, I have never done that. I don't know exactly what that means, but from my reading it has always sounded like something an ISP might want to do, but not a home network ever. I _think_ it means I configure my machine to indiscriminately forward any damn email that makes an intermediary hop to my box. I can't think why I would want to do that. The machine in question, a FC5, has postfix installed but not running. sendmail isn't even installed. I send no mail from it and read none. It is the ssh destination for my firewall, and that's it. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
