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Title: I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the
Post by: Derek on February 25, 2003, 11:41:30 PM

this is the message i get in my email to me from sme
how do i prevent this from happening or from people trying to use my box
thanks
SME 5.5

Title: Re: I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but
Post by: Jesper Holck on February 26, 2003, 12:56:32 AM

A little more information would be nice, but try to check both the "To" and "From" addresses in the emails.

Title: Re: I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but
Post by: Bill Talcott on February 26, 2003, 02:13:38 AM

Do a search for "doublebounce".

Title: Re: I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but
Post by: Derek on February 26, 2003, 04:25:11 PM

I tried the search for doublebounce and only came up with the message that you posted :)  
as for the email addresses that they are coming from, they come from everywhere
yahoo. etc
here is part of the msg content when i get one  of these
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at datastorms.com.
I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the bounce bounced!

:
64.156.215.6 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (christian_ag69@yahoo.com)

• - mta193.mail.scd.yahoo.com

--- Below this line is the original bounce.

Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 7733 invoked for bounce); 23 Feb 2003 00:03:45 -0000
Date: 23 Feb 2003 00:03:45 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@datastorms.com
To: Christian_ag69@yahoo.com
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at datastorms.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.

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

i get about 2-3 of these messages a day from different people
and i havent sent messages to any of them

Title: Re: I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but
Post by: Dave Liquorice on February 26, 2003, 07:54:22 PM

> I tried the search for doublebounce and only came up with the
> message that you posted :)

How far back did you search? The default is only the last 30 days...

Cheers
Dave.

Title: Re: I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on February 27, 2003, 02:43:13 AM

Sounds like someone is using your email address as a "reply-to" to send spam, just a guess.....

Cyrus Bharda