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  • Dancer0

    Skt,
    The thing is I did, a while back when I set up an out of office reply it happened again and they said:

    As the subject your vacation message is "Away for a small break." it sounds as if you are merely replying to all emails that come to you at your server. If Ethan has sent you an email, though perhaps you don't know him (his email could be the spam) the server will respond to this message with the Vacation message.

    The most common reason for seeing 550 relaying denied errors is that the recipient email address simply does not exist and the recipient server is not accepting emails for this bad address. If you get a lot of spam and your vacation message is replying to all of this spam you will get a lot of bounced messages, as a lot of spam is from fraudulent email address that don't truly exist.

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    • The answer & a puzzle all in one. The next reasonable question would be 'well how do I stop it then shitsticks?'ian
    • But they probably won't be able to tell you how anyway.ian

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