Re: ssl with dslextreme.com attempts to send a spurious email

Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Gene,

> Joanne <jdow> wrote:
> > I am running up to date Scientific Linix 7.x (Centos).
> > The fetchmail version is fetchmail-6.3.24-7.el7.x86_64.

I think it would be worthing checking in Centos's package-upgrade log to
see what packages upgraded around 2019-Apr-04 when the symptom appeared.

> > Along about 2019-Apr-04 it started to try to send an email to a
> > rather enigmatic address,
> > JkiO@JkiO----------------------.{MUNG]us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.

That looks like an address in an incoming email that's being processed?

> > I believe I have determined it is fetchmail itself that is acquiring
> > the localhost socket to send the mail using the audit facility.
...
> My first question is, when did fetchmail grow sendmail like legs?

It can originate a bounce email when it finds downstream objects.
Joanne is aware of this, based on her

> > set no bouncemail
> > set no spambounce

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Cheers, Ralph.
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