I'm receiving miss addressed mail?

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Nov 3 22:51:08 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 16:07, Richard E Miles wrote:
> I am receiving mail addressed to someone else. My mail address is
> r.godzilla at comcast.net. I have received mail addressed to:
> r.godzilla at calamitygrowing.com and from:
> joe-blow at comcast.net. These are not forwarded mails. How is this possible?
> I use fetchmail to receive my mail. Is there anyway to stop this?
> These are just two examples. I have received similar miss addressed mail from
> other names also. Can a procmail rule be used to stop this? If so what would that
> rule be?
> 

Spammed mail probably due to the recent version of the Netsky virus.
I have begun getting many mails (80 - 100) from that over the last week.

As long as you do NOT open any of the attachments you are probably OK.
(And running Linux you are probably OK anyway.)

> -- 
> Richard E Miles
> Federal Way WA.
> registered linux user 46097




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