[courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread Tim Hosking
Hi. I just received a spam email from homelenders.com. Here are the headers: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp1.vol.cz (smtp1.vol.cz [195.250.128.73]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,168bits,DES-CBC3-SHA) by OldPeculier with esmtp; Wed, 26 Dec 2001

Re: [courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread Sysop
How did you expect it NOT to get delivered? Everything looks cool, do you not accept email from an unknown user or somethign? You can add that persons domain into your bofh file, or just that account, but I fail to see how you expect it NOT to get delivered. Tim Hosking wrote: Hi. I just

Re: [courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread Sysop
THey buried the REAL destination in the headers, and spoofed the To field it looks like. Tim Hosking wrote: on 27/12/01 12:39 pm, Sysop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the TO: field in the header. That address has nothing to do with my server. I do not host homelenders.com and I have no

Re: [courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread Tim Hosking
on 27/12/01 12:39 pm, Sysop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the TO: field in the header. That address has nothing to do with my server. I do not host homelenders.com and I have no user called loanrep. I do not accept mail addressed to non-existent users. How did you expect it NOT to get

Re: [courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread Tim Hosking
on 27/12/01 12:54 pm, Roland Schneider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Tim Hosking wrote on 27.12.2001 12:21 -0500: I just received a spam email from homelenders.com. Here are the headers: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp1.vol.cz

Re: [courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread Tim Hosking
on 27/12/01 1:07 pm, Sysop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I don't think they did. Actually I think I am an idiot and did not appreciate exactly how smtp works. I realised this by looking at the message headers for a couple of message received from this mailing list and noticing that the

Re: [courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread John Gateley
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 12:09, Tim Hosking wrote: It was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a closer look at the headers. It was delivered to you via bcc. j msg00666/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [courier-users] How the hell was this spam delivered?

2001-12-27 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001, Tim Hosking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the TO: field in the header. That address has nothing to do with my server. I do not host homelenders.com and I have no user called loanrep. I do not accept mail addressed to non-existent users. The To: header field has