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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:56:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I replied to some mail on l-k and IBM spammed me with 20+ error > messages. Now it is apparently going to do that again. Still/again ? > IBM: I asked your postmasters to fix your mail systems, and you > apparently don't know how to do that. Can you fix it?! > > I don't know what broken mailserver substituted my email address as > pavel%internet.vnet@RCHGATE.RCHLAND.IBM.COM, and I do not care much, > but STOP SPAMMING ME. > Pavel It is same type of MTA misbehaviour as is exhibited by various M$ email virus scanners. Visible "From:" header has absolutely nothing to do with what is the correct address to send the message to. (Or "To:"/"Cc:" headers..) > RCHGATE.RCHLAND.IBM.COM unable to deliver following mail to > recipient(s): > <tinglett@rchmail.rchland.ibm.com> > RCHGATE.RCHLAND.IBM.COM received negative reply: > 501 5.1.8 <@RCHGATE.RCHLAND.IBM.COM:PAVEL@INTERNET.RSCS>... Domain of > sender address PAVEL@INTERNET.RSCS does not exist Tinglett isn't subscribed. Yet the message is quite fresh... > ** Text of Mail follows ** > Received: by RCHGATE.RCHLAND.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP Level 3A0) via > spool with SMTP id 6538 ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:45:57 CST > Received: by RCHGATE (cvtto822 5.1.7) via <pavel@internet> id 2652 > (NOTE) > for <tinglett@rchland>; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:45:57 -0600 > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:40:31 +0100 > From: "Pavel Machek" <pavel%internet.vnet@RCHGATE.RCHLAND.IBM.COM> > To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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