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Hi Michael. This is collateral damage from a spammer using your address on their spam. It happens to all of us at one time or another, there is nothing to be done about it, just delete the messages and it will pass. Spammers use real addresses from their mailing lists to get around spam checks at mail servers which look for a genuine reply-to address on incoming email. They only use them for small runs since otherwise their spam could get filtered out that way. When the spam hits invalid addresses the receiving mail server sends a bounced message to where it thinks the spam has come from. Most mail server admins are bright enough not to bounce spam messages since all that does is send them to some innocent third party. Unfortunately not all mail server admins are bright so anyone with a valid email address on the spammers' lists will get this blowback email from time to time. On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Michael Boschat wrote: > Hi: > > I just got 96 messages with most being like so: > > Mail Delivery System Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender > > postmaster@synergy-cables.com Delivery Status Notification (Failure) > > And my spam filter is on... > > Clear skies > ---------- > Michael Boschat - aa063 > > >
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