On 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 14:03 GMT, Anthony Campbell penned: > > > > The problem has appeared in the last few weeks, since when I've been > > seeing an increasing number of messages to say that outgoing mail has > > not been delivered (see below for some examples). None of these are > > messages I have sent myself (obviously). The failures are only a small > > subset of the emails that are being sent, presumably "successfully", > > because when I ran mailq this morning there were 20 or 30 spam > > messages waiting to go (I deleted them manually, of course). I looked > > at these before deleting them; they were a very mixed bunch indeed, so > > it can hardly be just one spammer. > > > > I'm pretty sure that the messages you're receiving simply indicate that > a spammer is spoofing your address in their From field. > > If you want to be sure you're not acting as an open relay, you can go to > http://www.ordb.org/submit/ > and submit your mail server. Note: if you *are* acting as an open > relay, they will put you on their list until you clean up your act, and > in the meantime some mail servers might not accept your mail. >
Thanks for this; you could be right because most if not all of the messages are coming from an ISP which produces spam almost exclusively (but I use it because it allows me to run cgi-bin, which I need for a form that people fill in on my website). Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
