I'm receiving miss addressed mail?

[Patrick Ryan Vinson]

I've heard of people being able to spoof these fields and put
information in there and have it show up as something different.
I can't really say for sure since I am not too familiar with it all
myself.  However, have you tried sending an email to those accounts
and seeing if they come to you?  If they don't then maybe those received
emails are some of those spoof ones that I have heard of.


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 14:07 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
> I am receiving mail addressed to someone else. My mail address is
> r.godzilla at comcast.net. I have received mail addressed to:
> r.godzilla at calamitygrowing.com and from:
> joe-blow at comcast.net. These are not forwarded mails. How is this possible?
> I use fetchmail to receive my mail. Is there anyway to stop this?
> These are just two examples. I have received similar miss addressed mail from
> other names also. Can a procmail rule be used to stop this? If so what would that
> rule be?
> 
> -- 
> Richard E Miles
> Federal Way WA.
> registered linux user 46097
>