[Techtalk] question reference mail programs

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Saturday 21 August 2004 22:35, Helen wrote:
> I recently received an email from someone saying that I was spamming them
> from my receive only account.  I checked into it a bit further yesterday
> and found that I had started postfix on my server with my receive only
> address as the masquerade.  It looks like I may have been spamming people
> from the server.  I am using Suse 9.0 and I was recently doing and online
> update and I received an error message for my postfix config as well.  But
> it said nothing except that it had found a /etc/postfix/main.cf.SuSEconfig
> .... and was exiting with a warning.
> Does anyone have any experience with this?

Are you sure that it was you that was spamming them?  Does the person 
reporting the spamming know enough about how to look into the mail headers 
and work out what IP address the mail was coming from?  There is nowdays a 
link between viruses and spam, and if your 'receive only' address was in 
someone's (Windows) address book and they got a virus, your address may have 
made its way into a spammers collection of addresses to use as a fake return 
address.

Without knowing much more detail, it is hard to know.  You really need a copy 
of the full message they received, including all headers, to make any 
assessment at all.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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