Just like the message says, it's the bounce bouncing.
Some spammer tries to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], a nonexistent
account. Qmail says "no mailbox here by that name", and proceeds to
send the message back to its originator, "unknown
(4.48.164.237)". That is, of course, an invalid address, and the
return bounces to postmaster.
cheers,
Todd
At 02:26 PM 8/20/01, Travis Turner wrote:
>Hey All,
>
> I have been subscribing to this list for over a year now and
> have received a ton of great information and a few laughs. Even
> though I hate myself right now for what I am about to do I am going
> to do it anyway. That's right I am going to ask a relaying
> question. I am currently running RH 6.2 and I have done all the
> normal relaying prevention steps. I have a control file populated
> with my domain name and i have tested my Qmail server from the
> outside and I cannot relay mail through my server. Yet I keep double
> bounced messages from spammers sending email to users that don't
> exist and using a unknown user name from my server. For example
>
>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Received: (qmail 12570 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2001 15:20:10 -0000
>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Received: (qmail 12567 invoked for bounce); 20 Aug 2001 15:20:10 -0000
>Date: 20 Aug 2001 15:20:10 -0000
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: failure notice
>
>Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.appliedi.com.
>I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce
>bounced!
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>--- Below this line is the original bounce.
>Return-Path: <>
>Received: (qmail 12564 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 15:20:09
>-0000
>Received: from unknown (HELO mail.) (4.48.164.237)
>by mail.appliedi.com with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 15:20:09 -0000
>Message-ID: <GziQfNbo2td4T.4beMQiXQh01nPZsLlQ@mail.>
>From: <>
>Bcc:
>Reply-To:
>Subject: Are you more than $2000.in debt? We can help. (237982)
>Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:08:39 -0400 (EDT)
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Are you more than $2000 in DEBT?
>
>Can anyone help.
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Travis
>
>P.S. Flames received with a smile!!
>
