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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:54:49 +1000
From:      Andrew Perry <andrew@shoal.net.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Returned mail: Host unknown (fwd)
Message-ID:  <32E340E9.2926@shoal.net.au>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970119193531.11493U-100000@thelab.hub.org> <32E2C74E.41C67EA6@usit.net>

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Troy Settle wrote:
> 
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Jim Riffle wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> > >
> > > > > That is a good question, I knowtice at the end it says the sender was
> > > > > "www@rif.kconline.com" which cannot be true.  That is one of my boxes and
> > > > > I don't have a "www" user defined.  The only thing I really have done
> > > > > today was went and filled out that new server that fellow had created.  I
> > > > > would be willing to bet it is his script which mailed this message..
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, I didn't find where it said that -- perhaps you received your own
> > > > copy of this mail?  On the copy I received, the sender was
> > > > "www@narcissus.ml.org", and I do not have a www user defined either.  I
> > > > also filled out a form on the web, I think at www.hub.org or something
> > > > like that.  Is that what you mean?
> > >
> > > Now this is weird!
> > > Must be sendmail just appending the domain name from the host the message
> > > was read at..  Here it said my host, and on your machine your host..  So,
> > > I am not really sure were that message came from.  I did not get a copy of
> > > that message, so perhaps it isn't that script at all.  If it was that
> > > script, I would assume I would have gotten a bounce like you did as well.
> > > So, I don't think that is what it was, sorry about that.  seeing my host
> > > is there threw me off.
> > >
> >
> >         Guess I should follow some of these threads a bit more closely...
> >
> >         The script at www.hub.org/~scrappy that processes the survey
> > currently does *nothing* except for log the results.  In the future,
> > it will send a mail message back to the submitter with a password in it
> > so that you are able to go back and update your entry, but that is the
> > *only* use of the email address...
> >
> 
> For a minute there, I thought I got something *really* frigged up on my
> system.
> 
> I could be wrong, but I don't think it was a script on any web site
> (check your
> mail logs).  It looks to me like a test mail sent either to or from an
> improperly configured machine or domain.
> 
> When/if someone sorts this all out, please post back with an
> explination,  I'd
> do it myself, but I got enough problems trying to figure out how to sort
> through
> 3 different mailboxes, and still keep them all seperate.  Not to mention
> a new
> ISP to get up and running.
> 
> laters,
> Troy


I filled out the survey and got a strange mail returned host unknown as well!

Andrew Perry
andrew@shoal.net.au



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