heh, I had a few of those once in a while, but even before the mydoom thing.
here's a pic of one of the emails I got (I knew the address of the person who sent it, and I also knew that it wasn't him who wrote it, obviously.)
There was no text, or body to the message. This was the full message I recived:
The original message was received at Sat, 7 Feb 2004 21:12:55 +0100 (MET)
from mstr81212-17833.dial-in.ttnet.net.tr [81.212.69.169] (may be forged)
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<
[email protected]>
(reason: 550 Unknown local part mpreuss in <
[email protected]>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to fhl1.fh-lausitz.de.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 Unknown local part mpreuss in <
[email protected]>
550 5.1.1 <
[email protected]>... User unknown
<<< 503 Valid RCPT TO <recipient> must precede DATA
From :
Daren Head <
[email protected]> <---(This is not me)
Reply-To :
"Daren Head" <
[email protected]>
To :
[email protected]
Subject :
Life insurance - best quotes
Sent :
Saturday, February 7, 2004 8:06 PM
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from mstr81212-17833.dial-in.ttnet.net.tr (mstr81212-17833.dial-in.ttnet.net.tr [81.212.69.169] (may be forged))by deneb.dfn.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i17KCfZF010027for <
[email protected]>; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 21:12:55 +0100 (MET)
Received: from 116.72.120.128 by 192.76.176.9; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:03:50 -0400
Return-Path: <
[email protected]>
Message-ID: <
[email protected]>
X-CS-IP: 72.16.50.224
And the one before that:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
[email protected]
user not found
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
And the first one:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
From :
<
[email protected]>
To :
undisclosed-recipients:
Sent :
Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:48 PM
Received: from psmtp1a.meredith.com ([192.223.4.22]) by pemlb01a.ad.mdp.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:47:49 -0600
Received: from mail23-kan-R.bigfish.com (mail-kan.bigfish.com [63.161.60.29])by psmtp1a.meredith.com (/) with SMTP id i0DDmnu8023199;Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:48:49 -0600 (CST)
Received: from mail23-kan.bigfish.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by mail23-kan-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTPid 12DFD26B45E; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:48:49 +0000 (UCT)
Received: by mail23-kan (MessageSwitch) id 1074001728693417_26848; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:48:48 +0000 (UCT)
Received: from 63.161.60.2 (unknown [213.37.29.19])by mail23-kan.bigfish.com (Postfix) with SMTPid 16D3D26B408; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:48:46 +0000 (UCT)
Received: from 230.55.105.192
Message-Id: <
[email protected]>
X-BigFish: pcsv
Return-Path:
[email protected]
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jan 2004 13:47:49.0586 (UTC) FILETIME=[D5485B20:01C3D9DB]
I've gotten my ISP e-mail set up, so I'll use that for personal mail, but it's hard to tell what websites are "safe" to give your email address to.