I have been using Linux for a couple of years, it has always done what I needed it to so I have never played with it too much.

I run Susi 10., Crossover office Dreamweaver Firefox, Perl and Evoliution.

My problem is this, I have started to receive many emails suggesting an email I sent bounced back.

e.g.

here is one example

From:
MAILER-DAEMON@doll-babies.com
To:
kqsh@bla.co.uk
Subject:
failure notice
Date:
Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:29:50 -0700 (18:29 BST)


the only email address I use is david@bla.co.uk so the address above has been generated.

So has it been generated by a script on my Linux desktop or has someone got my email and are just generating emails from my valid email address with the exception of changing the name.

I use Avast antivirus and my Linux box looks clean.

can anyone help and advise me where I should look to find the problem.

thanks
David.

Seems to me like one of the many many mail address spoofs out there. When I had a Yahoo account, I regularly received emails from myself supposedly.

Do you run the mailserver or is it a hosted server elsewhere?

The mail server is run by my ISP, I use Susi 10 just as a desktop.

Is there anything I can do, or do I just use a filter to bin rejected emails?

cheers
David.

If you have the mail headers, you can trace the originating ISP and let them now about the problem - they can then take action at their end.

At your end, you could set up some rules to only allow mail to be received internally from people in your address book....

Also, I'd edit out your email real address from your first post, otherwise you're likely to find that you start getting a lot of spam to it since it's now in the public domain...

Thanks for all your help everyone.