On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:59:45PM +0200, Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
> Sending a message directly to the user account does not result in a
> delivery attempt from account.microsoft.com, therefore I believe there
> is not an auto-responder in action on the user account.
In that case something more complex is going on.
> However, I fail to see how the auto-responder would send mail from a
> scammer controlled domain. If it is an auto-responder configured on the
> hotmail service, the automatic response should originate from hotmail.
> Am I missing something?
I too would expect that to the case, but I don't know what options
Microsoft gives for automating message processing.
> > If Microsoft really sends notices from a non-existent domain, shame
> > on them.
>
> That's the only conclusion I can draw from the observations.
You could temporarily exempt that particular address from
"reject_unknown_sender_domain", and REDIRECT it to an admin mailbox,
then you may be able to see what these messages are about.
--
Viktor.
