Hi Tom, If I understand your problem correctly you received a bounce back for an email which was sent from your account to your wifes old account which no longer exists. Unfortunately there is little you can do about. It is like me sending a letter to an invalid / non-existing address and it gets returned to the return address specified on the letter.
Unlike snail-mail you got the headers and the bounce back. The headers in this case may not be so useful since you looking at the bounce back. However the bounce back itself should contain the details of the system from which the original mail came form. Bouncing it in this case will not have any effect as it only goes back to the mail server which sent you a notification that it couldn't deliver your message. There are cases when the bounce option was useful. For example to deal with head-hunters or other people annoying you. To deal with real spam a good spam-filter helps. To deal with this issue gray listing can help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting Since you using iinet this will most likely not be possible to implement. If it happens only every so often just delete the message. If this happens a lot see if the messages came from the same IP address. Maybe email your findings to the list and we will see what else to suggest. Alex On 14/06/12 11:18, tom samson wrote: > Okay some really worthwhile discussion but can I prevent an address being > sent? > tom > On 13/06/2012, at 9:28 PM, tom samson wrote: > >> First you are correct I have been with iinet for about five years >> second there are no copies of that address on my machine and I cannot find >> it in spotlight or in address book >> third mail was switched off at the time because we were at work. >> and curious no sent mails. >> >> I think I need to see if little snitch can prevent any unwarranted emails. >> Can this be done or is there another way ? >> tom >> On 13/06/2012, at 8:53 PM, cm wrote: >> >>> Hi Tom, >>> >>> Just a thought. I take it you are with iiNet now, hence the iiNet mailer >>> daemon. You may have your wife's old address in an address book somewhere >>> and inadvertently sent it an email. Which email account was the >>> notification directed to? Have a look in the sent folder of that account >>> from as many machines as you use that account on and see if there is an >>> email accidentally addressed to the old account. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Carlo >>> >>> On 13/06/2012, at 20:48 , tom samson wrote: >>> >>>> I had an undeliverable email notification from: Mail Delivery >>>> System<mailer-dae...@icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au> with the >>>> problem 5.1.0 Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 and the email address of my >>>> wife's old big pond account from about 5 years ago. >>>> It ends with suggesting that I sent this on 13 June 2012 2:12:43 PM AWST >>>> >>>> the problem is we were at work at the time and this account has been >>>> inactive for a long time. >>>> Is there a problem here? and how could this have happened? >>>> tom Samson >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings& Unsubscribe >>>> -<http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings& Unsubscribe >>> -<http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings& Unsubscribe >> -<http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings& Unsubscribe > -<http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
