[SPURIOUS] Delivery Status Notification(Failure) (fwd)

Aiza aiza21 at comclark.com
Tue Apr 20 10:56:43 UTC 2010


Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> On 20/04/2010 08:08:40, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone (everyone?) else been receiving these DSNs a week or so
>>> after having posted to freebsd-questions@ ?  Since around early
>>> April?
>>>
>>> I've had four such in the last three days ...
>>>
>>> If it's 'just me' I can block their source, but if more widespread
>>> I'll ask our esteemed postmaster (cc'd) to try hunting the errant
>>> recipient.
>>>
>>> cheers, Ian
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> <snip headers>
>>> Your message:
>>> To: twelcome at mobileemail.vodafonesa.co.za
>>> Subject: Re: reliable rs-232
>>> Sent Date: 25:05 +0000
>>> has not been delivered to the recipient's BlackBerry Handheld.
>> Now that you mention it, yes.  A posting to "freebsd-questions@"
>> about 01:00 (US Pacific) on Apr 06 did not get one of those, but
>> one about 01:10 on Apr 08 and three (one about 01:00, two about
>> 19:10) on Apr 09 did.  The first notice turned up at 20:16 Apr 16,
>> and the other three between 20:13 and 20:15 on Apr 17.  All four
>> specify the same recipient address as yours.
> 
> I've seen exactly one bounco like this -- but only after grepping
> through lots of mail logs and my junk folder.  One bounce is bad enough
> if it goes back to the whole list -- but that could be excused as a
> momentary aberration.  Any more than that is grounds for reporting the
> message to postmaster at freebsd.org and having the sender blacklisted:
> anyone that configures a mail server to send error notifications to an
> entire mailing list needs a) to spend some quality time studying the
> SMTP RFCs and b) to step away from the keyboard /now/ as they are
> clearly not competent to run a mail server on the Internet.
> 
> Thoroughly recommend using relaydb(1) to teach your mail system where
> you've received spam from in the past and make sure it doesn't happen
> again.  I've a cron job that processes the contents of my Junk
> mailfolder through relaydb on a daily basis.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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  I also have been getting Delivery Status Notification(Failure)

about recipient's BlackBerry Handheld. But following that I also get

mail from the questions postmaster saying my emaill is spaming junk mail

and it has a zip file attached.

The email headers only have single hop to me. Looks like forged email.

Sender hoping i will unzip the file so it can install a Trojan. I just 
delete it.



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