heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) (11/27/90)
I've got a minor problem (annoyance) that I'd like some help getting cleared up. For a few weeks, I've been receiving some email on my machine that is bound for someone I never heard of before. I'd like to get it to stop, so I don't have to continually manually intervene with my mailer to clean the crap out or deal with failure messages to "postmaster". The rest of this is based on the headers of the email as it sits in my spool area. Any header munging along the way may have changed things drastically. The original messages contained in the failure mail have a "From:" address of "scottj%stealth@uunet.UU.NET (Scott Johnson)". This means that to send a reply, one delivers the mail to uunet.UU.NET for delivery to "scottj%stealth". Convention has it that that means uunet should send the mail to machine "stealth" for delivery to user "scottj". Well, "stealth" is a machine in my lab. It is listed in the UUCP maps. So, uunet forwards the failure message to *my* stealth. "Received:" header lines in this original message indicate that it passed through (at least) "dazix", "ncrlnk.Dayton.NCR.COM", "uunet.uu.net", "mcsun.EU.net", "fuug.fi", and "funet.fi". The mail is addressed to "ccheke%ncr-mpd@uta.fi" and bounces with a message about a "Host utacc not known" while talking with "tut.fi". "Pretty wierd", says I. I've tried sending email to postmaster at several of the (I presume) involved sites, with no help so far. If anyone knows how to reach this Scott Johnson person, please let me know. Or, better yet, tell him to CUT IT OUT! Thanks much. -- Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod "Give me voice mail or give me drugs!"/"Mandatory Drug Testing? Just Say NO!!!"