spam from local host 127.0.0.1

do I need to be worried about this

[nancyb]

I have gotten over 400+ spam today!

I use mailwasher and almost all of the spam is being statused for delete by one or more filters I've set up.

Because there have been so many today I decided to look at the headers again just to see if there was anything in common.

Egads, they start:

Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by mydomain.com
with SpamAssassin (2.52 1.174.2.8-2003-03-24-exp);
Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:12:50 -0600

127.0.0.1 is my local computyer, right? I'm on XP Pro.
I just ran two full virus scans on the 30th (Norton and HouseCall), Norton is up to date.

I looked around WebmasterWorld and Google and got lost - mentally. Does this mean that someone somewhere has a mailto: with my domain and [127.0.0.1]?

Do I need to be worried about this? I don't think I can take another catastrohpy this week.

Thanks

[Jingle]

Localhost, in this case, is your mail server.

If the header is correct (spammer forges header, these days), some software on your mail server is sending mail to itself.

[nancyb]

thanks Jingle.

No, there were too many, all different, to be forged.

I installed SpamAssassin earlier in the day, so I think that had something to do with it because as soon as I uninstalled SpamAssassin it all stopped.

Very strange, especially since I left a few of them on the server so I could download them to show my hosting service - and - none of them arrived in my inbox.