[TriLUG] I'm getting lots of Weird Bounces... any thoughts

[Joshua Gitlin]

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Hello Everyone... I haven't posted in a while. Good to be back :)

I've been getting all sorts of weird bounces from my email server as of 
last night... They're bounce messages that are bouncing, so my confused 
email server (qmail) is sending them to me.

The emails were all (originally) sent from various email addresses 
under my domain that don't exist (nonsense addresses like 
6pqjukwytm at tumaz.com) and they were sent to AOL members (and who knows 
who else). AOL is bouncing the messages "back" to me... although they 
didn't even originate on my system... They're coming from a variety of 
IP addresses, some of which appear to be in denmark. The messages read 
something like this:

"--PAH03624.1063911700/str-d10.mail.aol.com--"

As far as I can tell, this has something to do with somebody trying to 
figure out something about AOL's mail servers, and they're just using 
my domain as a scapegoat... But I'm not really sure what's going on. 
I'm worried that it's either a misconfiguration in my email server or 
someone trying to do something nasty to one of my servers (and 
succeeding). Any thoughts? Thanks guys!

Joshua Gitlin
Website Developer/Designer
Webmaster, Glow Films, Inc
http://josh.tumaz.com/
http://www.glowfilms.com/
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