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I received this spam in my catch-all. As a webmaster of the domain it was sent to, I am really curious what the reason for this mail is. It was sent to a non-existent user "tania" on my domain - here I used mydomain.zzz - what do the sender want to achieve? Since many mail servers have stopped backscattering, not getting a bounce would not mean anything, would it?

And if this is off topic, where inb the StackExchange WOULD it be on topic?

Delivered-To: arbitraryname@mydomain.zzz
Received: (qmail 8015 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2011 02:32:47 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO p3pismtp01-021.prod.phx3.secureserver.net) ([10.6.12.26])
          (envelope-sender <Planet1@dt3ls.com>)
          by smtp35.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (qmail-1.03) with SMTP
          for <arbitraryname@mydomain.zzz>; 27 Jan 2011 02:32:47 -0000
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At4FAAlnQE1GVjtCVGdsb2JhbACWXo4gCwEWCA0YJLwyhU8EhRc
Received: from mx.dt3ls.com ([70.86.59.66])
  by p3pismtp01-021.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with ESMTP; 26 Jan 2011 19:32:47 -0700
Received: from 70.86.59.66
        by mx.dt3ls.com (Merak 8.9.1) with ASMTP id JXF39710
        for <arbitraryname@mydomain.zzz>; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:31:10 -0500
Return-Path: Planet1@dt3ls.com
Status: 
Message-ID: <20110126173109.4d9d6c3f2b@1c3c>
From: "Tech Support" <Planet1@dt3ls.com>
To: <arbitraryname@mydomain.zzz>
Subject: Information, as instructed.
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:31:09 -0500
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: General-Mailer v.3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Quote:

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might 
forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying 
to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even 
fought. The field reveals to a man his own folly and despair, and victory 
is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
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You might try serverfault.com. – Lèse majesté Jan 28 '11 at 12:15
Thanks. I just did. Then I tried to delete this, but could not until tomorrow... So it goes... – mplungjan Jan 28 '11 at 12:20

closed as off topic by John Conde Jan 27 '11 at 16:31

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