For the last week or so I've been getting a bounceback email that strikes me as very odd. Why is it odd? I have never sent email to the address it's going to! Here's the message I get my real address has been overwritten with MY_ADDRESS@MY_DOMAIN.net to protect... well... me:
>Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
From: "Mail Delivery Subsystem" <MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com>
Date: Tue, May 4, 2004 1:57 pm
To: MY_ADDRESS@MY_DOMAIN.net
Priority: Normal
The original message was received at Tue, 4 May 2004 13:57:33 -0400 (EDT)
from dpvc-68-162-218-122.bos.east.verizon.net [68.162.218.122]
*** ATTENTION ***
Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery. The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".
The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".
The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered. The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.
Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
administrator.
--AOL Postmaster
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<adamvolpe@aol.com>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to air-yd02.mail.aol.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<adamvolpe@aol.com>
<<< 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
550 <adamvolpe@aol.com>... User unknown
The message (as read in Squirrelmail) has two attachments. Here's the first:
>Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-yd01.mx.aol.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:57:33 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; adamvolpe@aol.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; air-yd02.mail.aol.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 MAILBOX NOT FOUND
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:57:55 -0400 (EDT)
Here is the second
>Received: from Marketing.org (dpvc-68-162-218-122.bos.east.verizon.net
[68.162.218.122]) by rly-yd01.mx.aol.com (v99.12) with ESMTP id
MAILRELAYINYD18-1f24097d98b1dd; Tue, 04 May 2004 13:57:31 -0400
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 13:57:31 -0500
To: adamvolpe@aol.com
Subject: Hey!
From: secretGurl@aol.com
Message-ID: <rstjjisatlqestwmgto@aol.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="--------lyqyaprmjukealzaeszi"
X-AOL-IP: 68.162.218.122
X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:XXX:XX
X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0
So this looks like a Spam email. But why the hell is it bouncing back to me? Anyone have any ideas?