Re: Receiving spam from my own server

["Dave Moore" <dave.j.moore () gmail com>]

On 12/6/06, Adam Rosen <ajrosen () buffdata com> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> When you say "I am receiving spam e-mails", what inbox is getting those
> emails? Is it your dave.j.moore () gmail com account?

Yes.

> Do you have any
> forwarding set up for any email to someone () foobar net to go to that
> address? If info () foobar net for example is set to forward to your gmail
> account, than this is common - and the sender address is the easiest
> thing to forge.

root () avitas net forwards to me. I have not set up any other
forwarders, and I have sent messages of my own to the address in
question (info () avitas net) to make sure that they are not forwarding.

> Making it look as if someone inside your domain is the
> sender is an old trick. I'd say that someone sent an email to
> info () foobar net where it got picked up by an internal mail server which
> then forwarded the mail to gmail.
>
> Adam

Thanks for your help!
Dave

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