> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 16:51:50 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> 
> > I've looked at it and I've (probably) missed it (again). Why do you think
> > that it pretends to look like backscatter, and why do you think it is not?

On 13.05.08 19:09, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote:
> backscatter is what happens if mail systems automaticly reply to forged
> From: headers.

> In this case the mail was never sent over any third party.  It claims to
> be bounceback from my own MTA, while in fact it never went through any MTA
> (directly sent from dialup).

since the message expired, I only can guess from what I remember:

your mailserver re-wrote the from: and mail from address, but the mail was
sent by remote mailserver...

> I'm worried that this might be a new form of joe jobbing.  Ie somone sends
> out mails that look like bounceback from your machines.

I didn't have the feeling when looking at the message. Maybe you could put
it somewhere it won't expire that fast?
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