Re: Does anyone else get these blank failed deliveries?

[Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 05:02:36PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > Every time I send a message to the Cygwin/X list I get an empty bounce
> > with the following headers:-
> > 
> >     From devnull@ise.de  Fri Dec 17 15:53:40 2004
> >     From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@ise.de>
> >     Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> >     To: chris.green@isbd.co.uk
> >     Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:48:04 +0000 (GMT)
> >  
> > Is anyone else experiencing this?
> 
> Someone (or a worm) is using your mail address to send infected mails.
> Just ignore them. You can't make it stop anyway.
> 
It's something more subtle than the usual though as it is definitely
only happening when I send mail to the Cygwin/X list, one of these
"Returned mail:" errors for each message I send to the list.

I get all sorts of other junk but this is the only one that has these
odd (and consistent) characteristics.

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

    "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."