Unexplained Emails

[jdonalds]

There has been a particular email surfacing in folks email boxes that insist that a message has been relayed by the user to another that doesn't exist. Basically receiving an undeliverable message from the server. Like so

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From: System Administrator
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:21 AM
To: me@mydomain.com
Subject: Undeliverable: Veronica

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: Veronica
Sent: 8/16/2006 10:21 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

address@mydomain.com on 8/16/2006 10:21 AM
The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.
<mydomain.COM #5.1.1>

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The address@mydomain.com is my email address but not quite right it's missing some characters. The me@mydomain.com would be the correct address, therefore receiving the email. I've checked the settings on our mail server to make sure we're not setup as open relay. Any other suggestions at this point?

We currently utilize Symantec's anti-virus corporate edition along with the Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Gateways. If it's adaware or a virus it's not catching it.

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

To me it looks like a spam the just has the username wrong and the domain name right. Anti-Virus would not stop this email from being delivered to your mail server. You can use a third partly spam utility like Symantec brightmail to filter this mail by address. Exhcnage SP2 also has a new spam filter if you choose not to purchase a third party utility.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/downloads/2003/imf/overview.mspx