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I am receiving Mail Delivery Subsystem returned emails that I never sent in the first place.

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suddenly receiving undelivered emails that I never sent.

   **********************************************
   **      THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY      **
   **  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE  **
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The original message was received at Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400 from gator4300.hostgator.com [162.241.194.11]

  ----- Transcript of session follows -----

<czaffanella@gdds.com>... Deferred: Connection timed out with gdds.com. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old


Reporting-MTA: dns; mail144c7.megamailservers.com Arrival-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400

Final-Recipient: RFC822; czaffanella@gdds.com Action: delayed Status: 4.4.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; gdds.com Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:18:32 -0400 Will-Retry-Until: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400


X-Authenticated-User: mcompute@sasktel.net DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=megamailservers.com; s=mailtor; t=1555441187; bh=EECORJsDe/Klw4lT5dczXtXOcgQINqbaVJuDuFXfnNI=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=dekwxg1AXHfkBPopdfRJWGgmswiNCm571eZyOJ9or7rOkYwbjJV7YYdzN05A7EnJn HrCR3gbW7Zjs5X6NO8Gbmw5AJecloEvjB/naxAgeg613WkTS9n6B8kOrW1bFXBKCUl 2cZ4Xkf3PFZ/DVuAa3eOb1XZA6JKPjL9fFA4s7RM= Feedback-ID:mcompute@saskte X-VIP: 69.49.109.87 X-Envelope-From: mcompute@sasktel.net Return-Path: <mcompute@sasktel.net> Received: from sasktel.net (gator4300.hostgator.com [162.241.194.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail144c7.megamailservers.com (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id x3GIxjqJ016861 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for <czaffanella@gdds.com>; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:59:47 +0000 From: "=?utf-8?Q?Skyler_Tettler?=" <mcompute@sasktel.net> Organization: jqhjfiknjzzt X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <2903367250.20190416185947@sasktel.net> To: czaffanella@gdds.com Subject: =?utf-8?Q?RE?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020213.5CB62623.004B,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 100 X-CHA: v=2.3 cv=CKQEoyjD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 p=TU0ie_wIAAAA:20 a=eyl/7imxPUSO9ML4UQZRXg==:117 a=eyl/7imxPUSO9ML4UQZRXg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=xvRX9O2B6B0A:10 a=AVSkihd3AAAA:8 a=x23q1MDtLZJzJLh5eAwA:9 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=_vu1VWMIjNQA:10 a=hDOg1y-bjVEA:10 a=PWNbEqZCwNUA:10 a=pHzHmUro8NiASowvMSCR:22 a=nt3jZW36AmriUCFCBwmW:22

suddenly receiving undelivered emails that I never sent. ********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** ********************************************** The original message was received at Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400 from gator4300.hostgator.com [162.241.194.11] ----- Transcript of session follows ----- <czaffanella@gdds.com>... Deferred: Connection timed out with gdds.com. Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old Reporting-MTA: dns; mail144c7.megamailservers.com Arrival-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400 Final-Recipient: RFC822; czaffanella@gdds.com Action: delayed Status: 4.4.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; gdds.com Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:18:32 -0400 Will-Retry-Until: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400 X-Authenticated-User: mcompute@sasktel.net DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=megamailservers.com; s=mailtor; t=1555441187; bh=EECORJsDe/Klw4lT5dczXtXOcgQINqbaVJuDuFXfnNI=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=dekwxg1AXHfkBPopdfRJWGgmswiNCm571eZyOJ9or7rOkYwbjJV7YYdzN05A7EnJn HrCR3gbW7Zjs5X6NO8Gbmw5AJecloEvjB/naxAgeg613WkTS9n6B8kOrW1bFXBKCUl 2cZ4Xkf3PFZ/DVuAa3eOb1XZA6JKPjL9fFA4s7RM= Feedback-ID:mcompute@saskte X-VIP: 69.49.109.87 X-Envelope-From: mcompute@sasktel.net Return-Path: <mcompute@sasktel.net> Received: from sasktel.net (gator4300.hostgator.com [162.241.194.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail144c7.megamailservers.com (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id x3GIxjqJ016861 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for <czaffanella@gdds.com>; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:59:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:59:47 +0000 From: "=?utf-8?Q?Skyler_Tettler?=" <mcompute@sasktel.net> Organization: jqhjfiknjzzt X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <2903367250.20190416185947@sasktel.net> To: czaffanella@gdds.com Subject: =?utf-8?Q?RE?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020213.5CB62623.004B,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 100 X-CHA: v=2.3 cv=CKQEoyjD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 p=TU0ie_wIAAAA:20 a=eyl/7imxPUSO9ML4UQZRXg==:117 a=eyl/7imxPUSO9ML4UQZRXg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=xvRX9O2B6B0A:10 a=AVSkihd3AAAA:8 a=x23q1MDtLZJzJLh5eAwA:9 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=_vu1VWMIjNQA:10 a=hDOg1y-bjVEA:10 a=PWNbEqZCwNUA:10 a=pHzHmUro8NiASowvMSCR:22 a=nt3jZW36AmriUCFCBwmW:22

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I am guessing it is backscatter. It is certainly not a Thunderbird problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)