[vox-tech] Scary cron-deamon message

[Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez]

Hi Richard,

I might be completely in the dark here, but it sounds like you might 
be the victim of a spammer a) using your machine to send garbage out 
or b) using a @stonegoose bogus return address.  I think the former 
is likely though.  Do you require authentication for SMTP from your 
server?  If not, then some spammer found your server and is using it 
to spam.  If this is the case, I'd shut that hole quickly, before you 
start getting on the anti-spam server lists.

Is that the complete message?

-dan

Richard Crawford wrote:
>I have my server at home set to check my e-mail using fetchmail every five
>minutes.  When it generates an error, the error message is sent to my
>account.
>
>I received this error message a few minutes ago.  It scares me; should I be
>worried?
>
>
>----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
>Subject: Cron <richard at hagrid> fetchmail >> /dev/null
>Date: Tuesday 19 April 2005 10:56
>From: Cron Daemon <root at stonegoose.com>
>To: richard at stonegoose.com
>
>fetchmail: SMTP error: 553 5.1.3 <mkwsmryacfvcy at myfastmail.com,>... Invalid
>  route address
>
>-------------------------------------------------------