Re: Email i have not sent

From: Jim Watt (jimwatt_at_aol.no.way)
Date: 04/27/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:16:15 +0200

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:16:20 GMT, "alan" <alan@alan.alan> wrote:

>
>"Rob" <r1_ffc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:b8gab8$dc8$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> For about four weeks now I have been getting mail returned from mail
>> delivery system to me saying the recipient did not receive this mail. I
>have
>> never sent mail to these people.
>
>This sounds like you're running a mail server on your machine
>with an open relay.
>or you or someone else has installed an smtp server,
>which is being used by someone else to send spam.

No, its more likely someone else is doing it with
forged FROM headers The secret is to read the
headers and identify the source ISP.. 

--
Jim Watt          http://www.gibnet.com

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