So this has happened a few times ... but it’s a rare thing and seems to only 
happen when I send an email to myself.

 

I will get a mailer-daemon message immediately following delivery of the 
message I sent to myself. The bounce is for some email address I never sent the 
email to (but the email message is attached to the mailer-daemon message, so it 
was apparently the one I just sent to myself). I don’t even know the email 
address at all, and when I do a search in the logs in the /send, /smtp and 
maillog file, the email address is not there anywhere. When I look at the 
current log file in the /send directory, it shows I only sent a message to 
myself and shows delivery to myself then shows the bounce message was initiated 
and sent to me.

 

What is causing this to happen? The email address I am sending to is an alias 
created and stored in vpopmail (not a .qmail alias I set up manually) and only 
forwards to my mail mailbox. Is this because of a corrupted database somehow? 
Once again, the email address that I get the bounce from isn’t ANYWHERE in any 
of my logs so it’s not like it was a recent attempt for an smtp connection or 
something.

 

Would appreciate any insight to this as I certainly don’t want any of my emails 
just going out to random email addresses. (Though, once again, the logs show 
nothing was actually sent out even though I got a mailer-daemon message from my 
server that the message was undeliverable).

 

 

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