[wplug] Fw: Returned mail: User unknown

Duncan Hutty dhutty+wplug at ece.cmu.edu
Mon May 16 08:58:37 EDT 2005


On 05/16/2005 08:30 AM, Greg Simkins wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
>  
> You were just talking about Botnets.  I am very suspicious that I 
> already belong to several.  I got these bouncebacks from AOL, suggesting 
> to me that somebody is running mail through my server (which is behind a 
> PIX firewall). 
>  
> Is there any way that I can determine whether my computers are owned by 
> others? 
>  
>  
>  
> Here are the headers:
> 

<snippage of stuff that probably should have been linked to, not posted>

At first glance I would say: isn't this more likely to be the response
(from AOL) to someone attempting to send mail to non-existent aol users
while forging your address as the sender?


-- 
Duncan Hutty
System Administrator, ECE
Carnegie Mellon University

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