Mailer Daemon

[mikmik]

I got an extremely strange email today with the subject line and body text containing one word: 'test'.

Here is the message source that I viewed (before opening it):

X-Message-Info: 6sSXyD95QpUpF+g+2nALC/QSdHs+hw3z
Received: from linux.local ([207.6.202.47]) by mc5-f4.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824);
Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:53:38 -0700
Received: by linux.local (Postfix, from userid 30)
id 2F4FD1C138; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:56:20 -0700 (PDT)
To: mykle4@hotmail.com
Subject: test
Message-Id: <20040722115620.2F4FD1C138@linux.local>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 04:56:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: wwwrun@linux.local (WWW daemon apache)
Return-Path: wwwrun@linux.local
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2004 11:53:38.0271 (UTC) FILETIME=[867AE6F0:01C46FE2]

test

I ran a lookup on '207.6.202.47' and got

207.6.202.47 [PSI.COM or ISTAR0006] appears to be located at: OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CA.

which led me directly to http://www.psinet.com/.
These people provide dedicated internet access

PSINet's Dedicated Access services offer you superior performance for your business Internet connections. Your traffic will ride on Cogent's all optical fiber backbone, ensuring maximum speed and reliability. Two connectivity options are available:

Dedicated T1 Internet Connectivity at 1.5 Mbps
Dedicated T3 Internet Connectivity at 45 Mbps

for business accounts, etc, not cheap stuff, I am sure.
Funny thing about this is that I got to a hotmail account, funny I got it at all.
Did anyone else get anything like this?

I will email PSI with this as well.

[wenwilder]

Did it come with an attachment mik? An email with one word in it, these days, usually signifies a virus. "Mailer Daemon" is another one. If it didn't come with an attachment then more than likely it was cleaned somewhere along the way.

Just remember the origination of the email could have came from an infected machine. Emailing it to the company is a smart move though. But then you know that already lol



*congrats on mod status by the way ;)

[mikmik]

They replied to me that I emailed the wrong department and to go "dept name"
But I already had an email from "dept name" saying that I was not a customer and would be accorded a 'class three' priority and they would try to get to my trouble ticket within 48 hrs!
Then they gave me a trouble ticket number LOL

I talked it over with mushroom, and it looks like someone that has a dedicated line with PSI (hmmm, I am getting a feeling...) was testing their mail server and forgot to stop the general mailing list from getting this.
I figure it is one of the newsletters I subscribe to, I also got one of these on another account on MY Linux machine, but I thought I must have sent it to myself.
Oh well, another mystery solved.
Good work, WW. Hey, that rhymes with 'double-you-double-you' :O)


*thanks, by the way! Can I edit some of your posts?