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Returned undelivered mail that I never sent? Is it a bug or virus?
I am being bombarded with emails addressed from internet mail delivery,
postmaster, mail administrator, mailer-daemon, mail delivery system etc.
The subject being undelivered emails, delivery notification, mail system error,
etc. Ihavnt sent any of these emails in the first place.
Is it a bug or a virus?
I am currently receiving these emails at the rate of 100-200 per day.
What can i do to stop them?
Anyone can help?
Thanks in advance.
Johnny
postmaster, mail administrator, mailer-daemon, mail delivery system etc.
The subject being undelivered emails, delivery notification, mail system error,
etc. Ihavnt sent any of these emails in the first place.
Is it a bug or a virus?
I am currently receiving these emails at the rate of 100-200 per day.
What can i do to stop them?
Anyone can help?
Thanks in advance.
Johnny
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I Agree with jhance :)
A quick examination of the mail headers will quickly reveal whether or not these messages originated at your system.
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> What can i do to stop them?
short answer: nothing
long answer: install a spam filter in your MUA
very long and exhaustive answer: I agree with jhance
if you want to spend your time you can examine the mail headers and try to find out if some of thes mails are cause by a mistyped adress from you, or if one of the MTAs you use had a problem with delivery. But most likely such investigations end somewhere in nirvana ...
short answer: nothing
long answer: install a spam filter in your MUA
very long and exhaustive answer: I agree with jhance
if you want to spend your time you can examine the mail headers and try to find out if some of thes mails are cause by a mistyped adress from you, or if one of the MTAs you use had a problem with delivery. But most likely such investigations end somewhere in nirvana ...
A couple of good articles:
Understanding E-mail Spoofing
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Email-Spoofing.html
Spoofed/Forged Email
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html
Zee
Scan your email server for any Virus issues.
BR Dushan
BR Dushan
Hi,
There is really nothing that you can do right now , except change your email address.
If your are a person that never gives your email to anyone but the necessary people even then there is no way that you can avoid the SPAM. I spend almost 1 year researching and testing both software solutions and appliances that claim to be over 90 % effective in protection against SPAM and none of them works as I want.
Most likely the reason for your problem is not even your fault. This is as simple as sending and email to one of your supplier, that suppiers computer gets infected with a mass mailing virus and your are history.
As an Network Admin I had to change a lot of email addresess because of this.
We now use a conbination of Mcaffe SpamKiller , Exchange Groupshield, GFI MailSecurity with good but not perfect result
I know this is not an answer but to let you now that you are not alone.
Good Luck!!!
There is really nothing that you can do right now , except change your email address.
If your are a person that never gives your email to anyone but the necessary people even then there is no way that you can avoid the SPAM. I spend almost 1 year researching and testing both software solutions and appliances that claim to be over 90 % effective in protection against SPAM and none of them works as I want.
Most likely the reason for your problem is not even your fault. This is as simple as sending and email to one of your supplier, that suppiers computer gets infected with a mass mailing virus and your are history.
As an Network Admin I had to change a lot of email addresess because of this.
We now use a conbination of Mcaffe SpamKiller , Exchange Groupshield, GFI MailSecurity with good but not perfect result
I know this is not an answer but to let you now that you are not alone.
Good Luck!!!
As said by war1
Your Mails ID`s are being spoofed and sent. Nothing much can be dont to stop it.
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Hi everybody.
Thank you guys for your answers and I appologise for my late reply. I'm very busy with my new business.
Thanks War1. I used all your suggested programs and scanned my computer - no viruses found.
Dushan911 - how do I scan Mail Server for any Virus issues? I haven'd done it before. I don't know how to scan a server. Can I access a sever on the net where is my web site hosted?
Changing my email address is out of question because I use it for my business.
I can't believe that nothing can be done.
The amount of returned mails is not slowing down. Still getting tons of them. Maybe there is a bug on my computer?
I never spam because I know how annoying and bad it is, but some bastards out there make our lives miserable.
I use two email programs.
Eudora for my private mail and Microsoft Outlook Express for my business. I have no problem using Eudora, no returned emails like in my Outlook Express. Is this because Outlook Express is Microsoft product and easily targeted?
I want to create a rule in Outlook Express for certain adresses like this one for example: MAILER-DAEMON@s2.eilan.net
I want to block all mails coming from MAILER-DAEMON. How do I do it?
Thank you again for your help.
Regards,
Johnny
Thank you guys for your answers and I appologise for my late reply. I'm very busy with my new business.
Thanks War1. I used all your suggested programs and scanned my computer - no viruses found.
Dushan911 - how do I scan Mail Server for any Virus issues? I haven'd done it before. I don't know how to scan a server. Can I access a sever on the net where is my web site hosted?
Changing my email address is out of question because I use it for my business.
I can't believe that nothing can be done.
The amount of returned mails is not slowing down. Still getting tons of them. Maybe there is a bug on my computer?
I never spam because I know how annoying and bad it is, but some bastards out there make our lives miserable.
I use two email programs.
Eudora for my private mail and Microsoft Outlook Express for my business. I have no problem using Eudora, no returned emails like in my Outlook Express. Is this because Outlook Express is Microsoft product and easily targeted?
I want to create a rule in Outlook Express for certain adresses like this one for example: MAILER-DAEMON@s2.eilan.net
I want to block all mails coming from MAILER-DAEMON. How do I do it?
Thank you again for your help.
Regards,
Johnny
It should done by Email server Administrator. If your not the person, then you can ask from him (or your email ISP)
BR Dushan
BR Dushan
-->"I use two email programs.
Eudora for my private mail and Microsoft Outlook Express for my business. I have no problem using Eudora, no returned emails like in my Outlook Express. Is this because Outlook Express is Microsoft product and easily targeted?,"<--
No - this is because the email address that has been hijacked is the one you are using in Outlook.
In Eudora, no doubt you have a different address which at the moment is safe....
For creating rules - have a look here:
http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/email/general/853/
However, some mailer-daemon messages could be of genuine interest.
Rules in OE dont block, but sort. e.g. you could divert all emails with a certain criteria to "deleted" or something like that.
Rules are applied once you have either "received" or "sent" the message - not while on the server.
An option you have is to download only the headers - i.e. to see whats on the mail server before you actually download from it.
Or if possible - use web mail....
Although both these would still be time consuming if you're getting 1000's.
Eudora for my private mail and Microsoft Outlook Express for my business. I have no problem using Eudora, no returned emails like in my Outlook Express. Is this because Outlook Express is Microsoft product and easily targeted?,"<--
No - this is because the email address that has been hijacked is the one you are using in Outlook.
In Eudora, no doubt you have a different address which at the moment is safe....
For creating rules - have a look here:
http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/email/general/853/
However, some mailer-daemon messages could be of genuine interest.
Rules in OE dont block, but sort. e.g. you could divert all emails with a certain criteria to "deleted" or something like that.
Rules are applied once you have either "received" or "sent" the message - not while on the server.
An option you have is to download only the headers - i.e. to see whats on the mail server before you actually download from it.
Or if possible - use web mail....
Although both these would still be time consuming if you're getting 1000's.
> I can't believe that nothing can be done.
and what do you expect should be done?
As said multiple times before: install a spam filter in your email program, change email address, catch the person who send the unsolicited and tell him to stop it, if you can ...
and what do you expect should be done?
As said multiple times before: install a spam filter in your email program, change email address, catch the person who send the unsolicited and tell him to stop it, if you can ...
Try this, it's free:
ChoiceMail Free 3.1
http://www.download.com/ChoiceMail-Free/3000-2382_4-10434830.html?tag=lst-0-10
- Excellent editor's rating, very good user rating.
Or this, also free:
ZAPaSPAM for Outlook Express w/Parental Control 2.2
http://www.download.com/ZAPaSPAM-for-Outlook-Express-w-Parental-Control/3000-2382_4-10436011.html?tag=lst-0-4
- Good user rating.
Good luck!
Zee
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Thank you all for your help.
I scanned my computer with various software and cleaned it a bit.
It seems that the returned emails are slowing down. Not as many arriving in my email box.
I hope that they will stop eventually.
Best regards,
John K.
I scanned my computer with various software and cleaned it a bit.
It seems that the returned emails are slowing down. Not as many arriving in my email box.
I hope that they will stop eventually.
Best regards,
John K.
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Thanks for your extremely quick reply.
I will use the sugested online scans when I get up.
It's 5am now. Time to have a little sleep :-)
I will let you know if it helped.
Best regards,
Johnny from Downunder.