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Someone is sending out mail and spoofing your address as the sender.
It is a very common thing today, happened to me a couple of times.
Yes, it doesn’t necessarily mean that your email server is compromised, but I would search your website for files you didn’t put there anyway.
Look at the email headers to see where they were sent from (server IP) to start with. If its your server then you got issues, if not its just crap that happens.
On a side note, blacklists and spam source services report the IP of open relays and spammers not the e-mail address so getting spoofed is not that harmful.
@allfreechips 148492 wrote:
On a side note, blacklists and spam source services report the IP of open relays and spammers not the e-mail address so getting spoofed is not that harmful.
That’s good to know. Thanks for the info! :hattip:
Thanks for the information. I’ve had this problem for 2 years. Everyday I have to delete upto 2k of messages. 75% are junk spam and others are the standard [Mail Delivery Subsystem with the subject as Returned mail: see transcript for details].
Yesterday Windows Live Messenger would popup with a link attached to a porn titled file and had my first name as the contact name. I tried to block the sender three times, but I continued to receive more pop-ups hourly so I closed the application. After a system check I noticed a windows upgrade that was almost 200 MB and took several hours to update that caused me some concern, but it was legit.
Just to be sure I immediatly called my host to backup my portals and forum as well as change all passwords.
Do you have a catch all account or does the spammer spoof one of your actual addresses? If he tries [email protected] switching the catch all off will greatly reduce the number of mailer daemon notifications.
Hi Goldfinger,
I think that I do, but it’s redirected to a yahoo account. I’m going to contact my host to discuss this while I’m thinking about it.
Thanks very much.
Guys
If any of you are using SEND STUDIO as an e-mail system, please contact me. We were successfully hacked through a flaw in the software 2 days ago, that allowed the guys doing it to send thousands of e-mails off our server, as well as download some information (lucky for us it was encrypted)…if anyone has the software on their server, please hit me up…I will not post the hack they used/more info for fear of giving anyone ideas…ditto for PMs…I will send you a fix for it and the issue, but not the hack…so any wanna-be hackers – don’t bother pretending you have the software…its not gonna happen
Cheers
Dave
