Re: email headers

In the headers of an email message, consider everything forgable except
possibly the ip address of the sending computer.  It's trivial to forge or
make those other fields say just about anything.  It's harder to forge the
sending IP address but not entirely impossible, but just out of reach for
99.9% of the spammers out there.

But the message is a 'judgement' call from your email server that indicates
they cann't verify that the mail server sending the email is the one that
should be sending email for the stated domain of the stated sender.

Lyle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Bayley" <webmaster(at)prairienorth.com>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 7:07 PM
Subject: email headers


> Can anyone tell me what it means in the email headers when it gives the
> domain and IP address of where the message is from and followed by *may be
> forged*?
>
> Thanks,
> - - -
> Kevin
>
> "The Web brings people together
> because no matter what kind of a
> twisted sexual mutant you happen
> to be, you've got millions of pals out
> there. Type in 'Find people that have
> sex with goats that are on fire' and the
> computer will ask, 'Specify type of goat.'"
> - Jason Alexander (from Seinfeld)
>
>
>

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