Receiving other people's mail

[Richard Thomas]

Rodney Green wrote:

>Hello. I'm using MailScanner (I am not sure which version) along with
>Postfix. While tweaking SpamAssassin I was looking at headers of some spam
>I've received and noticed that my address is not anywhere in the headers. An
>address of a co-worker is but mine is nowhere to be found. I checked
>mailscanner.conf and the forward directive is not set for spam. Any ideas on
>how I'm receiving mail addressed to another user? I've checked my virtual
>maps file as well as my aliases file and nothing is setup to forward mail to
>me. The only mail I'm getting addressed to the co-worker is spam.
>
>Thanks,
>Rod
>
>

Post some headers (edit them suitably first of course) and we'll try to
suggest.

Probably the spamming software is adding a different to: header than it
is sending as the RCPT TO: in the SMTP transaction.

Rich

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