Re[2]: Formmail and spam attack
by Olena Drozd <olena(at)drozd.org>
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Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:17:17 +0300 |
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hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org,
Tenley Shewmake <ts(at)awebresource.com> |
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Sure. One can include bogus "reply to", though not with public
e-mail-servers - theirs SMTP won't handle any mail which goes with
"from" address same as registered.
Still. One can use his/her own server. But one can simply track
spammer this way (just by taking a look at the "way" of the message).
There is one more possibility. One can crack someone else's private
server and use it to send spam with different "RT" and "From" fields.
This way all stones will fall on two innocent heads - server's and
e-mail addresses' owners.
All the best,
Olena
Long, long time ago, on Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 4:24:15 AM, you wrote:
TS> I believe that some spammers can include a bogus "reply to" or "from"
TS> address that has nothing to with where the email originates. We had
TS> several people email us with requests to stop spamming them. We hadn't -
TS> there's no formmail from that domain, and the reply to address was
TS> something-or other(at)ourdomain.com.
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