[epub] Re: Faked email addresses

[Ravi Jayagopal <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Email spoofing will continue to be possible as long
as ISP's allow what is known as "relaying".

That is - sending email as if you were someone else
(from some other domain name).

Many ISP's don't allow relaying, and if you tried to
send email from you@xxxxxxxxxx (assuming
you don't own domain.com), then the SMTP server
will reject the email asking you to enter login
details of that email address.

Obviously, you won't have it because you don't own
the domain name, and hence the sp`am gets stopped
even before it is sent.

Until the day all ISP's do it (not much hope they will),
there is no way for you to do anything to prevent it
from your end.

- Ravi
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At 01:15 PM 7/11/2003 -0700, Merle's World wrote:
> It's called "email spoofing". Someone is putting your email
> address into their return address inside of their email client.
> It's like "identity theft" and I've been a victim myself for a
> few months now. If the person doing it to you  is good, and mine
> is, they are very hard to catch and stop. If you find a way
> please let me know. The only way someone can tell you didn't
> really send it is if they look at the headers.


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