Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

On Thursday 05 May 2005 19:01, Gil Weber wrote:

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** Reply to message from Richard on Thu, 5 May 2005 06:32:20 -0500

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Suddenly I'm getting old emails returned, messages that I wrote, or may have wrote some weeks/months ago. The return is from postoffice at address.invalid and the delivery address is armisis at dsl.pipex.com.

I have absolutely no idea who or what that is.

Has anyone else seen this kind of stuff or have any idea what is going on? My guess is someone using Outlook may have some virus/trojan playing games with their email.

Just Curious, Richard --

Got one of those messages this morning. A "bounce" reply to a message I had sent to the list on March 13. Gil

Same here. First thought it was a virus/ worm but after clicking on the attachments I got back some old emails I wrote to the list on the 25 of march. Do not how to stop it.

I've set up a filter, to automatically delete them.

Gil Weber wrote:

** Reply to message from Richard on Thu, 5 May 2005 06:32:20 -0500

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Suddenly I'm getting old emails returned, messages that I wrote, or may have wrote some weeks/months ago. The return is from postoffice at address.invalid and the delivery address is armisis at dsl.pipex.com.

I have absolutely no idea who or what that is.

Has anyone else seen this kind of stuff or have any idea what is going on? My guess is someone using Outlook may have some virus/trojan playing games with their email.

Just Curious, Richard --

Got one of those messages this morning. A "bounce" reply to a message I had sent to the list on March 13. Gil

And they're all sent on Dec 31, 1969. I didn't know I had a computer back then. ;-)

The Thursday 2005-05-05 at 08:18 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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Has anyone else seen this kind of stuff or have any idea what is going on? My guess is someone using Outlook may have some virus/trojan playing games with their email.

I just deleted over 100 of them.

Don't just delete them, inform the list administrator, sending at least an attachement, so the guilty subscriber can be removed. I just got 225 of them, corresponding to emails sent by me to several suse lists since 24 Feb 2005, up to 12 Apr 2005. A very badly configured MTA somewhere! | Final-Recipient: RFC822; armisis@dsl.pipex.com | Action: failed | Status: 5.1.1 | Remote-MTA: DNS; postoffice.armilan | Diagnostic-Code: SMTP;550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: armisis@dsl.pipex.com | Last-Attempt-Date: 2005-05-05 10:14:12 +0100 -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

On Thursday 05 May 2005 8:48 am, Robert Cunningham wrote:

Same here I got about 10 of them, I wonder whose system is hosed Some of these are over 1 month old and are being returned by the recipient ISP. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

Kevanf1 wrote:

On 5/5/05, Jerry Feldman wrote:

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On Thursday 05 May 2005 8:48 am, Robert Cunningham wrote:

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Same here I got about 10 of them, I wonder whose system is hosed

Some of these are over 1 month old and are being returned by the recipient ISP. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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Yep, I'm getting them too. It's as if somebody's got a mail server running that has only just realised that the recipient is invalid so is returning the mail from months ago.

Not only that. Their computer clock appears to be off a bit too. The ones I get appear to have been sent on Dec 31, 1969.

On 5/5/05, Fergus Wilde wrote:

On Thursday 05 May 2005 15:01, James Knott wrote:

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Yep, I'm getting them too. It's as if somebody's got a mail server running that has only just realised that the recipient is invalid so is returning the mail from months ago.

Not only that. Their computer clock appears to be off a bit too. The ones I get appear to have been sent on Dec 31, 1969.

Superb - you're actually getting moonshot bounces. These were caused by the phenomenal thrust of the Saturn V at lift-off causing fluctuations in the space-time continuum that can really mess up packets with the ACK bit set. Phone Buzz Aldrin at once and ask him if he can do anything about it :-)

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On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:06 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:

On 5/5/05, Fergus Wilde wrote: Nah, you'd be better off getting in touch with Doctor Who :-)

Or just set spamassassin to 4.5 to /dev/null the messages temporarily. Since they come in with a 4.8 you'll never see them. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge