Strange Email Failure Notice

[LATH]

A few of days ago I started getting email failure notices...the type when you send an email to an invalid address. The strange thing is that I never sent the email.

 

At first I thought the email was junk mail but made to look like a failure notice so I would look at it. But, now I'm not so sure.

 

The following is the beginning of the email containing the email's meta data...any ideas?:

 

 

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at s38.xrea.com.

I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

 

<some-email-address@someotherdomain.net>:

Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

 

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

 

Return-Path: <email@mytchdomain.com>

Received: (qmail 18550 invoked by uid 89); 15 Apr 2006 17:54:20 +0900

Received: from dsl85-105-54677.ttnet.net.tr (85.105.213.149)

by 192.168.1.127 with SMTP; 15 Apr 2006 17:54:20 +0900

Received: from keolc.vgwatq ([85.105.96.171])

by dsl85-105-54677.ttnet.net.tr (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k3F8scZf042294;

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:54:38 +0300

Message-ID: <000901c6606a$2a2a6897$ab606955@keolc.vgwatq>

From: "Roland Frazier" <email@mytchdomain.com>

To: "Some Guy" <email@someotherdomain.net>

Subject: semiprecious

Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:44:42 +0300

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Type: multipart/related;

type="multipart/alternative";

boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C66083.4F77A06B"

X-Priority: 3

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000

X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

 

*TCH-Rob changed email address information

[TCH-Tim]

If it's not a real email address under your account, it's probably spammers spoofing email from your domain. Part of life on the Internet and there's not really anything you can do about it.

[TCH-Carl]

You can setup filters to block such emails. Also, if it is not a valid email account under your domain, have you checked the catch-all setting? You can change that to :fail: so that all unsolicited emails get bounced back.

[LATH]

Thanks for the suggest Carl...I used the ":fail:" and now no more emails...

[TCH-Carl]

Glad to know it worked

 

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