Re: [qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-26 Thread Dan McAllister
On 8/25/2014 11:27 AM, Jim Shupert wrote: friends, I have one user [ MrBlue } who is a valid user on my domain of theppjgroup.com It seems MrBlue has been getting overloaded with failure notices.. I *Think that someone is sending mail spoofing MrBlue -- but they do not have the password

Re: [qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-26 Thread Sebastian Grewe
Thanks Dan, you pretty much explained in details what I suggested ;-) I agree that this is indeed a hijacked account sending out spam and receiving bounces from those that were not delivered. In addition to Dans suggestions (password change and malware scan on systems) I would recommend

Re: [qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-26 Thread David
+2 Very good interpolation.. This is more the correct answer because I have the T-shirt on this one LOL On 08/26/2014 09:53 AM, Dan McAllister wrote: On 8/25/2014 11:27 AM, Jim Shupert wrote: friends, I have one user [ MrBlue } who is a valid user on my domain of theppjgroup.com It seems

Re: [qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-26 Thread Jim Shupert
Dan, Thank you for the lesson on mail headers. I very much need to know more about that sort of thing in order to do the kind of forensics of these sort of problems. 1st let me say that if I look at a legit MrBlue email it says in the header only and always mrb...@theppjgroup.com so when

Re: [qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-26 Thread David Milholen
Unless Mrblue is on a road trip somewhere accessing his mail... Then yes. I would do a nslookup 72.189.129.134 and see who it belongs to. mainly what country it is in. On 8/26/2014 1:51 PM, Jim Shupert wrote: Dan, Thank you for the lesson on mail headers. I very much need to know more about

Re: [qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-26 Thread David Milholen
Did you a solid... Looks like hes in florida and its a Time warner cable ip Results from DNSstuff.com Origin AS Data RIR Data *No Data Found!* *Reverse* 72-189-129-134.res.bhn.net. *Reverse-verified* No *Country Code* US *Country* United States *Region*

[qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-25 Thread Jim Shupert
friends, I have one user [ MrBlue } who is a valid user on my domain of theppjgroup.com It seems MrBlue has been getting overloaded with failure notices.. I *Think that someone is sending mail spoofing MrBlue -- but they do not have the password -- so it fails and My ( actual ) MrBlue then

Re: [qmailtoaster] many failure notice - a failed spoof?

2014-08-25 Thread Sebastian Grewe
It looks more like an authenticated mail from your server from a hijacked account. Check you servers logs for indications what account has been sending a lot of mails lately and change that accounts password. Sent from my iPhone On 25 Aug 2014, at 17:27, Jim Shupert jshup...@pps-inc.com