[clue-admin] Spam Routing Question: Why didn't it just bounce?

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Wed Dec 15 18:53:39 MST 2004


Jed S. Baer wrote:
> OK, I get an admin message from from Mailman about receiving a bounce
> message. But what it sent me wasn't a bounce message. It was spam sent to
> lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us, which doesn't exist at all on the
> machine -- not as an alias, not as an account, not in the mailman aliases.

Could it be that the To: line is forged and the envelope address was to 
you or the list?

Did you look through the postfix and mailman logs?  They should record 
the message being received, delivered to mailman, and then sent to you. 
  Maybe there will be some other clues.

Dave



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