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On Monday 30 September 2002 08H:11, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
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>
> I got another bounce from a server in the Ukraine. This one had a list
> of bad addresses, alphabetically similar usernames, on Russian domains.
> My MUA doesn't display the Cyrillic fonts (although it will display
> Greek and Asian occasionally), but the bodies of the bounced emails
> look the same.
>
> This leads me to believe that this is not a klez virus thing, but
> rather, a Russian spammer who is using my address. I'm just concerned
> about whether I should be concerned (if that makes sense).
That makes complete sense.
I didn't pore over your logfiles in great detail, so I apologize if the
answers to the following questions are covered there. This is definitely a
growing problem in general.
If you are running your own server, you may want to be concerned. If you are
having email forwarded to abuse@<yourdomain> or postmaster@<yourdomain> or
something like that, and you are the postmaster, you may need to look into
it. If any of these fit your situation, keep the posts coming. I've been
trying to look into some of these types of problems as well. I host and
forward email for myself as well as about 5 family members, a social group,
and one small business at the moment.
Forged spam is a definite problem, and sometimes your email address may be
used as the forged sender when sent to others. This is a really big problem
if your email server is being used as an "open relay".
If someone else is handling your email server you may want to inquire with
them as to what is going on. In this case, it hopefully your email address is
only being forged as the sender when you are also the recipient.
So, basically, are you the postmaster for alexion.com? Do you actually
configure your email server and have it open to the world to beat on it, or
does your ISP have an email server running on your behalf? Do you use
fetchmail to pull the email from your ISP's email server? If you use
fetchmail, then if there is a problem, it is most likely your ISP's concern,
assuming you have adequate firewall protection around your local email
server.
Good luck and hope this helps,
Jason Nocks
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