Hi folks, I've been receiving some bounced email to my root account on my email server recently. I have sendmail 8.11.6 and it is configured(by default) to NOT accept relays. However, I can't explain why I've been getting these bounced emails to users that root has never sent email to. Any thoughts?
Here's an example:
To:
MAILER-DAEMON@mail.myserver.com
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
The original message was received at Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:26:42 -0400
from root@localhost
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com.KAV
(reason: 550
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com...User unknown)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mx04.earthlink.net.:
>>> RCPT To:<aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com>
<<< 550
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com...User unknown
550 5.1.1
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com.KAV... User unknown
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.myserver.com
Arrival-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:26:42 -0400
Final-Recipient: RFC822;
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; mx04.earthlink.net
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com...User unknown
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:26:43 -0400
Return-Path: <MAILER-DAEMON>
Received: (from root@localhost)
by mail.bencoor.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3SDQgb26832
for
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com.KAV; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:26:42 -0400
Received: from localhost (localhost)
by mail.myserver.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3SDQgp26819;
Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:26:42 -0400
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:26:42 -0400
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON>
Message-Id: <200204281326.g3SDQgp26819@mail.myserver.com>
To:
aboritz576877488v64@earthlink.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="g3SDQgp26819.1020000402/mail.bencoor.com"
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
