Yupp, Jamie you got the point.
I want to see how the spammers have got hold my email address. And if I am getting spam on say sudhakar+evolution@, then I just define this as a spam address in my procmail and prevent mail from this address cluttering my mbox. I will subscribe to the list with a new address. And in general, I want to have an idea for myself how spammers are getting hold of my email. May be that info is useful for me an year from me now when I think of some spam related research. Sudhakar. On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 07:53, Jamie L. Penman-Smithson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 08:08, Not Zed wrote: > > Uh, so you want to send real mail, but with forged headers with a fake > > from address? > > > > Just set the from address in your account/make up a new one, that goes > > nowhere. The net result will be the same, a mail that people wont be > > able to reply to. > > > > I can see that going down 'well' on public lists. > > You're missing the point *entirely*. > > The idea is not to fake headers, the idea is being able to use a > different address for each mailing list, etc. I subscribe to several, > and I use a different address for each. If I get spam to one of them I > know where they got my address from, and I can easily bounce messages to > that address. > > On most MUA's you can set your From address to whatever you like, you > can configure it when you create an account, so why shouldn't you be > able to configure it on-the-go when composing a message? > > -- > -jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | spamtrap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: http://www.silverdream.org | p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > pgp key @ http://silverdream.org/~jps/pub.key > 12:30:01 up 1 day, 14:36, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.37, 0.29 -- Sudhakar Govindavajhala Department of Computer Science Graduate Student, Princeton University Ph : (c) +1 609 273 8407 (o) +1 609 258 1763 +1 609 258 1798 http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
