Remember that email headers are just text. And there are no checks on those headers, practically speaking.
If someone spoofs your mail server, everything in that message could be false. If you have verified that the message came from your real mail server, then there is a reasonably good chance that the time stamp it added to your header is real. On 10/8/07, db <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know if the times listed in email headers can be spoofed? > > If the sender changes their clock date/ time then the sending date/ time > is spoofed but it seems to be that the server transit point times list > on full header could not be spoofed. Is that true or false... does > anyone know? > -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
