In the past week or so, we've had trouble with spam being delivered to the wrong recipients. It's difficult to explain, so I'll use an example:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are local users receiving hundreds of spam per hour. None of it is addressed to them. Their email addresses don't appear anywhere in the message source. The messages in hackxx's account appear to be the same messages that xxmelser is receiving. Most of the misdirected messages seem to be addressed to other local users, such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To further confuse the issue, this only happens with spam. A legitimate message mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes through to xxmilton's account and doesn't appear in the other users' mailboxes. The *only* clue I have found is that most of these spams that get misdirected have a gap between the To: and the address in the message header, like this:
To:           <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Does anyone have any clue what might be going on here?

Thanks
DC
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