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Obedient mailserver

There's this one mailbox which i read by using IMAP (means: i don't control the mailserver nor the server-side spamfilter). Two month ago a misconfigured server (not this one with the IMAP mailbox) was abused to send spam around the world. Nothing new so far, happens all the time. The sender of this spam mails was faked - and the email address of my imap mailbox was used in the return address. Nothing new too. Also well known: most of the spam could not reach the designated recipient and the mail is dropped by the mailserver.

Not this one, this server is very obedient.

For two month the mailserver is trying to deliver this mail. And for two month i'm getting notifies that this mail cannot be delivered:

Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 72 hours
Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 96 hours
Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 120 hours
144, 168, 216, 240, 264, 288, 312, 336, 360, 384, 408, 432, 456, 480, 504, 528, 624, 648, 672, 696, 744, 768, 840, 888, 912, 936, 984, 1056, 1080, 1224, 1320, 1368 ...
Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 1512 hours
Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 1536 hours
Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 1560 hours
Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 1584 hours
Warning: message 1Kb11H-0005ne-Mt delayed 1704 hours

Yes, 1704 hours is more than two month.

So if by any chance someone from "minidedicated.com" is ever reading this posting: check your damned "server13" and get rid of the mails in the queue!