Mail Relay

[scott]

I think i am being used as a mail relay. I keep getting hundreds of returned
mail from people i never sent email to. This is what 1 looks like. I am
using Outlook 2003 with all updates. I cannot figure this one out.

thanks,
Scott

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

(e-mail address removed)
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>:
host zeus.mgmt.wits.ac.za [146.141.160.2]: 550 No such recipient

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
------ The body of the message is 107002 characters long; only the first
------ 106496 or so are included here.

 

[Janet B]

We need more information.
Are you running your own exchange server? -- If so you need to turn off
relaying. If not - you need to ask your domain admin to turn off relaying.
this is not controlled at the user level

HTH

 

[scott]

Ok, That makes sense, so how do i get it to stop?

thanks
scott

More than likely, either someone has a virus on their system that uses their
address book to send messages *from* the users in the address book, or your
address has been pulled from somewhere and used by spammers as a From field
on spam messages.

I doubt you're being used as a mail relay.

No, I am a home user with verizon as my ISP.

We need more information.
Are you running your own exchange server? -- If so you need to turn
off relaying. If not - you need to ask your domain admin to turn
off relaying. this is not controlled at the user level

HTH

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I think i am being used as a mail relay. I keep getting hundreds
of returned mail from people i never sent email to. This is what 1
looks like. I am using Outlook 2003 with all updates. I cannot
figure this one out.

thanks,
Scott

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
failed:

(e-mail address removed)
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
TO:<[email protected]>: host zeus.mgmt.wits.ac.za
[146.141.160.2]: 550 No such recipient

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Ok, That makes sense, so how do i get it to stop?

Odds are, not very easily.

If your email address was pulled from a public location (try googling your
email address, see if you can find it) you can try to remove it from that
site. This won't stop anyone who is currently using the address.

If you have a friend with a virus, thats easier to track down. The original
failed Delivery Status Notification (DSN) mentioned that it had all the
headers from the original message that produced the error. The first
Received header (reading from the bottom up) should (generally) reference
the machine that submitted the message to the Internet, which can generally
be tracked back to a person, or, at the least, reported to the host ISP as a
potential problem machine.