Did I send spam from my e-mail?

**FyreFox** · April 29th, 2008, 7:43 PM

I received a bunch of "undeliverable mail" responses from the good old postmaster mailer daemon between 5am and 9am this morning. Some of them say my message has been blocked by a Spam Firewall. I'm assuming this all went down before 5am it just took a little bit for the mailer-daemon message to come bac to me? Did anything happen to Dime9? my e-mail that it all went to was keleigh

keleigh.net I hardly EVER use that e-mail anymore and the other e-mail i have on that domain are fine... :-\ Any Ideas?

**wap3** · April 29th, 2008, 10:02 PM

I hope you really don't use that email.
If so it may be doomed.

I got 12+ rejected emails today.
<totally bogus name> myname

mydomain.com [*my* stuff was real]
I dumped a bunch before looking at *view message* and found they all were bounced of of dot ru accounts.

That's an old trick to get the mail to you.

**MarkRH** · April 29th, 2008, 10:18 PM

Yeah, I get alot of that bounce-back stuff that I never sent... but I've been using the same email address for years and years (it's not on a Surpass domain). I just let MailWasher delete them like the rest of the spam. Not much you can do other than dealing with it like normal spam or start using a different email address.

**removed** · April 30th, 2008, 12:40 AM

Spammers will often pick random domains, and then forge the return address headers to look like the message is coming from that domain. This is an insecurity in the SMTP protocol in general, and not an issue with any server configuration. Because of this, nobody takes the return address as valid proof you are spamming, thus you cannot be held accountable. The thing that people look for, are the IPs which sent the spam in the first place. This will be the only true indicator of who actually sent the message.

**FyreFox** · April 30th, 2008, 8:18 PM

Okaaayyy.... I'm taking that as a noooo...

**removed** · April 30th, 2008, 8:52 PM

That would be an accurate summary of what I tried to explain.

:x

April 29th, 2008, 7:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
FyreFox I C U Super #1 Joined in May 2003 Lives in Tampa, FL Hosted on Dime9 2,724 posts Gave thanks: 20 Thanked 28 times	Did I send spam from my e-mail? I received a bunch of "undeliverable mail" responses from the good old postmaster mailer daemon between 5am and 9am this morning. Some of them say my message has been blocked by a Spam Firewall. I'm assuming this all went down before 5am it just took a little bit for the mailer-daemon message to come bac to me? Did anything happen to Dime9? my e-mail that it all went to was keleighkeleigh.net I hardly EVER use that e-mail anymore and the other e-mail i have on that domain are fine... :-\ Any Ideas? __________________ Nothing will work unless you do. -Maya Angelou

April 29th, 2008, 10:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
wap3 Surpass Fan Comfy Contributor Joined in Apr 2004 Lives in South Texas USA Hosted on ChopChop 172 posts Gave thanks: 10 Thanked 7 times	I hope you really don't use that email. If so it may be doomed. I got 12+ rejected emails today. <totally bogus name> mynamemydomain.com [my stuff was real] I dumped a bunch before looking at view message and found they all were bounced of of dot ru accounts. That's an old trick to get the mail to you. __________________ --wap3 If we removed all of the "Oxygen Thiefs" [tm] from politics, maybe the earth would not have a Greenhouse Gas problem. wap3.com on ChopChop

April 29th, 2008, 10:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
MarkRH Race Surpass Super #1 Joined in Jul 2006 Lives in Oklahoma City, OK Hosted on sh102 1,176 posts Gave thanks: 18 Thanked 85 times	Yeah, I get alot of that bounce-back stuff that I never sent... but I've been using the same email address for years and years (it's not on a Surpass domain). I just let MailWasher delete them like the rest of the spam. Not much you can do other than dealing with it like normal spam or start using a different email address. __________________ SH102 : Mark Headrick - Blog - Gallery Pelicar \| Company of Valor \| Mysstie Wolfestar

April 30th, 2008, 12:40 AM	#4 (permalink)
removed Surpass Abuse Admin Super #1 Joined in Mar 2005 Lives in Houston, TX 7,574 posts Gave thanks: 10 Thanked 263 times	Spammers will often pick random domains, and then forge the return address headers to look like the message is coming from that domain. This is an insecurity in the SMTP protocol in general, and not an issue with any server configuration. Because of this, nobody takes the return address as valid proof you are spamming, thus you cannot be held accountable. The thing that people look for, are the IPs which sent the spam in the first place. This will be the only true indicator of who actually sent the message. __________________ Surpass Abuse & Security unofficial IRC chat: #surpass irc.blessed.net (efnet)

April 30th, 2008, 8:18 PM	#5 (permalink)
FyreFox I C U Super #1 Joined in May 2003 Lives in Tampa, FL Hosted on Dime9 2,724 posts Gave thanks: 20 Thanked 28 times	Okaaayyy.... I'm taking that as a noooo... __________________ Nothing will work unless you do. -Maya Angelou

April 30th, 2008, 8:52 PM	#6 (permalink)
removed Surpass Abuse Admin Super #1 Joined in Mar 2005 Lives in Houston, TX 7,574 posts Gave thanks: 10 Thanked 263 times	That would be an accurate summary of what I tried to explain. :x __________________ Surpass Abuse & Security unofficial IRC chat: #surpass irc.blessed.net (efnet)

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