ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 We have some pretty tech-savvy posters here, so here goes: I allowed my laptop to install some updates to Windows Vista today, and then got an immediate notice that updates were available for RealPlayer, which I also allowed my laptop to immediately install. I ran the new version of RealPlayer to watch 1 YouTube video. I then included a link to that YouTube video in an email message to a few people. Here's an email delivery failure notice that came back: ____________________________________________________________________________ This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. lanrerasak74@yahoo.com Final-Recipient: rfc822;lanrerasak74@yahoo.com Action: failed Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (lanrerasak74@yahoo.com) [-5] - mta1276.mail.bf1.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________________________ That email address is totally unfamiliar to me - - it's not an email address that I specified in my outgoing message. Three questions: 1. Is it possible that an intended recipient changed their email address, set up some sort of auto-forwarding, and then closed the second account? Seems unlikely (but at least one intended recipient has an email address that I had not sent a message to in over a year). 2. Is there some way for me to find out whether my outgoing email messages are or were being secretly forwarded somewhere without my consent? 3. The delivery failure notice specifies a "Final-Recipient" with a prefix "rfc822;" in front of the non-existant yahoo account name - - does that mean anything? Seems bizarre. Any input appreciated, as I was paranoid about computer security even before this. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Player Available Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 We have some pretty tech-savvy posters here, so here goes: I allowed my laptop to install some updates to Windows Vista today, and then got an immediate notice that updates were available for RealPlayer, which I also allowed my laptop to immediately install. I ran the new version of RealPlayer to watch 1 YouTube video. I then included a link to that YouTube video in an email message to a few people. Here's an email delivery failure notice that came back: ____________________________________________________________________________ This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. lanrerasak74@yahoo.com Final-Recipient: rfc822;lanrerasak74@yahoo.com Action: failed Status: 5.5.0 Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (lanrerasak74@yahoo.com) [-5] - mta1276.mail.bf1.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________________________ That email address is totally unfamiliar to me - - it's not an email address that I specified in my outgoing message. Three questions: 1. Is it possible that an intended recipient changed their email address, set up some sort of auto-forwarding, and then closed the second account? Seems unlikely (but at least one intended recipient has an email address that I had not sent a message to in over a year). 2. Is there some way for me to find out whether my outgoing email messages are or were being secretly forwarded somewhere without my consent? 3. The delivery failure notice specifies a "Final-Recipient" with a prefix "rfc822;" in front of the non-existant yahoo account name - - does that mean anything? Seems bizarre. Any input appreciated, as I was paranoid about computer security even before this. Thanks. Not positive but #1 sounds like it could possibly be the problem. And, possibly he didn't set up a auto forwarding account. I remember a long time ago shutting down a earthlink account and they wanted like 5 bucks to auto forward and I never did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acantha Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 When you view the email in your sent folder, is that email address there? If not, I'd say the email forwarding is the most likely answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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