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antonia

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Bizarro Bounced e-mail incident
« on: December 17, 2007, 10:15:04 pm »
Two days ago I created a new list and signed myself up to test.  Every thing works fine. 5 minutes ago I get an e-mail that a user (me) has been removed  because of a bounced message.  I've not set the list to send any e-mail so this is weird. When I read the message, the bounced message looks like spam addressed to me. I'm going to report this to my host too but I'm a little baffled and concerned that this resulted in my being removed from my own list-even though my address is valid. Any ideas on how this is possible?

---------- The bouncing message follows ----------

From ihb@example.com Mon Dec 17 22:41:35 2007
Received: from [222.123.140.11] (helo=adsl-pool-222.123.140-11.tttmaxnet.com)
       by box242.bluehost.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68)
       (envelope-from <ihb@brainin.com>)
       id 1J4VCw-0007ID-Ki; Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:41:35 -0700
Received: from [222.123.140.11] by brainin.com.inbound15.mxlogic.net; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:41:34  0700
From: "Lawanda Hannah" <ihb@brainin.com>
To: <antonia@mydomain.com>
Subject: late shopper
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:41:34  0700
Message-ID: <01c84173$526d5300$0b8c7bde@ihb>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
       charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3
Importance: Normal

Better hurry, its almost here! get your watches and hand bags while you still can, fast and safe.
http://www.example.com

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Bizarro Bounced e-mail incident
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2007, 10:40:10 pm »
The bounce script simply scans messages for the second "To: " header.  This is because many servers do not return our custom headers used to identify the user reliably.

What I recommend doing is changing your bounce address to something unguessable by spammers.  If I'm correct this may solve the problem.

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Dean Wiebe
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