>There is no "To" that I can see in this e-mail (other than "<Valued >Customers>"). Yet somehow, SIMS is receiving this and sending it to MY >mail account.
Where the mail goes is determined by the envelope "to", which may or may not coincide with the headers you see in the e-mail itself. So this is not a mystery. >See, in this one, even though "To:" is blank, there is this line: > Received: from [200.75.39.113] (HELO mindspring.com) by >pecandeluxe.com (Stalker SMTP > Server 1.8b9d14) with SMTP id S.0000020727 for ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 13 > Aug 2002 >that makes sense. Right, the other one had a 'received' also. > Somewhere in the message, there was a vaild address. >But how did SIMS know to send me the other? The envelope again. Someone here explained it very well once. Think in terms of USPS: there is an address on the envelope, and that is how the "package" really gets to you. The letter inside could be addressed to someone else entirely. > I have "Relay for clients >only" turned on This is presumably not a relay - it is being sent directly to you. > and I have "Verify Return-path" turned on. Which will only act if the e-mail matches the criteria outlined in the Stalker dox for Verify Return-paths. > I am not, >however, using any blacklists. If you had blacklisted 207.236.148.106 and 200.75.39.113, neither would have gotten through. Too bad you can't see into the future :-) > I have the following statement in my >routings: > <unknown>=error; >Unknown is a valid account name, but it is not "enabled" (however, I did >notice that I left the "Can connect" box checked...). I used to route >mis-addressed mail to the "postmaster" account (for reasons lost in the >mists of time when e-mail was new). But I got so sick and tired of the >spam that I set up the routing above to "bounce" the mail back to the >sender. Not sure if this is any better or worse that leaving no router entry for unknown at all. 'Error' will cause a spam-like bounce. Leaving the router entry out entirely will cause a 'user unknown' bounce. Stefan Jeglinski ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
