Weird mail - what's going on?

Peter Langfelder peter.langfelder at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 17:37:21 UTC 2010


Hi all,

I'm working on my laptop where I don't use the local linux mail at all
(use webmail). Just got a message in the terminal

You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/plangfelder

so I look into /var/spool/mail/plangfelder and see this:


>From MAILER-DAEMON at peter  Tue Jan 26 01:05:11 2010
Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON at peter>
Received: from localhost (localhost)
        by peter (8.14.3/8.14.3) id o0Q93AaU007227;
        Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:05:11 -0800
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:05:11 -0800
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON at peter>
Message-Id: <201001260905.o0Q93AaU007227 at peter>
To: <plangfelder at peter>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
        boundary="o0Q93AaU007227.1264496711/peter"
Subject: Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (warning-timeout)
Status: RO

This is a MIME-encapsulated message

--o0Q93AaU007227.1264496711/peter

    **********************************************
    **      THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY      **
    **  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE  **
    **********************************************

The original message was received at Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:40:17 -0800
from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
<your at emailaddress.com>... Deferred: Connection timed out with emailaddress.com.
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

--o0Q93AaU007227.1264496711/peter
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; peter
Arrival-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:40:17 -0800

Final-Recipient: RFC822; your at emailaddress.com
Action: delayed
Status: 4.4.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; emailaddress.com
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:05:11 -0800
Will-Retry-Until: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:40:17 -0800

--o0Q93AaU007227.1264496711/peter
Content-Type: message/rfc822

Return-Path: <plangfelder at peter>
Received: from peter (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
        by peter (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0Q4eHaT004810
        for <your at emailaddress.com>; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:40:17 -0800
Received: (from plangfelder at localhost)
        by peter (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0Q4eHD9004806
        for your at emailaddress.com; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:40:17 -0800
From: Peter Langfelder <plangfelder at peter>
Message-Id: <201001260440.o0Q4eHD9004806 at peter>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:40:16 -0800
To: your at emailaddress.com
Subject: Photos
User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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--o0Q93AaU007227.1264496711/peter--
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Anyone has an idea what's going on? Has my laptop been hacked and is
it being used to send spam?

Thanks,

Peter


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