Weird mail - what's going on?

[Armelius Cameron]

On Tuesday 26 January 2010 12:37:21 Peter Langfelder wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on my laptop where I don't use the local linux mail at all
> (use webmail). Just got a message in the terminal
<snip>
> 
> Anyone has an idea what's going on? Has my laptop been hacked and is
> it being used to send spam?

If you never ever used the mail server on the local laptop (.e.g sendmail) to 
try to send email, then this does look suspicious. It seems that someone or 
something is trying to use it to send email. 
Is there anything under /var/spool/mqueue ? 

AC