[Techtalk] sent email without appearing in sent folder?

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Mon Sep 23 07:49:05 EST 2002


On Sun, Sep 22, 2002, Meredydd Luff wrote:
> Another known one is a virus (sorry, dunno the name :-( ) which is
> flooding my Hotmail inbox at the moment, which fakes messages as
> *from* some people in the victims address book *to* other people in
> the victim's address book. The version I've got seems mostly to be
> Italian or Spanish spam, usually pornographic.

It's the Klez virus. The Return-Path header gives a fairly good idea
about who sent it. LinuxChix lists receive 5-10 copies each day, which
are stopped because we catch mails larger than 15k.

-Mary



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