Receiving lots of Message Delivery Failed emails

[djbenjo]

I am getting about 20 or so a day and have been doing for the last week.

The content is usually along the lines of:

The original message was received at Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:01:33 +0200 (CEST) from mx1-1.nfrance.com [80.247.228.3]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <[email protected]>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... User unknown)
(expanded from: <[email protected]>)

----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mx-final.nfrance.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... User unknown 550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>... User unknown <<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)

This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:

Message-id: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:21:34 +0530
From: Susan Faulkner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: flaw quietly

Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:

Recipient address: [email protected]
Original address: [email protected]
Reason: you are not allowed to use this list: [email protected]



__________ NOD32 1.1798 (20061011) Information __________

This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
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I have a domain of benmc.co.uk and I *think* anything @ ben mc.co.uk gets delivered to my inbox.

Any ideas?

 

[Visage]

I am getting about 20 or so a day and have been doing for the last week.

The content is usually along the lines of:




I have a domain of benmc.co.uk and I *think* anything @ ben mc.co.uk gets delivered to my inbox.

Any ideas?

If some spammer somewhere is sending out a lot of emails with a faked return address then any failure reports will be delivered to that address. Perhaps they're using yours?

 

[Craig321]

Are you the admin of the server by any chance and that's the admin email?

If so, that might be the 'problem' - all bounce emails that were sent through a non-existant email using your domain name will be sent to you.

 

[Nexus]

Had this happen to me and spent hours deleting all the clogged up messages in the domain e-mail address account.

You have two options really.

(A) Try and setup spam filters so that you can only recieve mail that you really should recieve.

(B) The mail you are recieving is being sent to your main domain e-mail account because it will be setup to 'catch all' mail that gets sent to the wrong address.. or for a spammer, any made up address ending in your domain name. You can turn this off, which means you no longer get any spam.

 

[robmiller]

Having a "postmaster" address is just asking for spam. Turn off the forwarding and breathe easy