Whats is wrong with my email account?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by gauharjk, Nov 21, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi Friends,

    It all began last week. I have been getting hundreds of emails every day. I don't know what is happening.

    Here is a sample mail.

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    "Hello, this is the PowerMTA mail server on Theoden.rhbss.com.

    I am sending you this message to inform you on the delivery status of a
    message you previously sent. Immediately below you will find a list of
    the affected recipients; also attached is a Delivery Status Notification
    (DSN) report in standard format, as well as the headers of the original
    message.

    <home@xyz.com> delivery failed; will not continue trying

    Final-Recipient: rfc822;home@xyz.com
    Action: failed
    Status: 5.0.0 (undefined status)
    Remote-MTA: dns;[10.200.40.121] (10.200.40.121)
    Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.1.0 Sender Denied"

    --------------------------------------------------------------------

    Any ideas whats going on? I had to delete more than 3500 such emails in the last 10 days.
     
    gauharjk, Nov 21, 2007 IP
  2. Indian_Webmaster

    Indian_Webmaster Banned

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    #2
    This is called Spamming. Some of those emails may have virus and trojans so please beaware..

    Which email account you are using?
     
    Indian_Webmaster, Nov 21, 2007 IP
  3. gauharjk

    gauharjk Notable Member

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    I am using Google Apps
     
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    #4
    do you remember any site u compose to...
    emmm i wonder...
     
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    #5
    I think someone just tricked you and made you give him your e-mail adress.Now he added it to a MailingList which is used for marketing purposes.Or for anything else :D
     
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  6. gauharjk

    gauharjk Notable Member

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    How come someone is using my domain to send thousands of unsolicited emails?

    The problem is huge. How did the spammer access my domain to send email to thousands of random email addresses. And it is happening everyday...
     
    gauharjk, Nov 21, 2007 IP
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    #7
    yes is just a different form of spam
     
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    #8
    Those are spam emails. What email company are you with?
     
    ForgottenCreature, Nov 21, 2007 IP