Receiving other people's mail

[Julian Field]

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Richard Thomas wrote:

> 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.
>
The addresses in the headers are totally irrelevant to the delivery of
the message. The only addresses that matter are the recipients as stated
in the message envelope.

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