[Techtalk] sent email without appearing in sent folder?

Jenn Vesperman jenn at anthill.echidna.id.au
Sun Sep 22 12:57:01 EST 2002


On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 11:35, Carla Schroder wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone. I don't believe Klez or anything related has infected my Red 
> Hat box. What got me wondering is I've been getting some really weird spam, 
> messages that purport to be ones that I sent, that bounced. I run them 
> through Sam Spade and Spamcop to see where they are really coming from, and 
> they don't come from me. But it's puzzling- what is the point??

What annoys me is when our own, LinuxChix mail server sends ME email
saying my Klez virus has bounced.

The point, I suspect, is that it's slower to kill Klez because people
who can't read email headers can't send back a message saying 'hey $FOO,
use a virus scanner you doof!'



Jenn V.
-- 
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