In
<CAJTOO5-_OgoTQ6jouYsF9MbmzgSQuv4pGYf0xNswZY7=zgb...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 09/20/2012
at 10:57 AM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> said:
>Someone could start their PC, start their email client, enter your
>email as the sender, and start sending emails through your account
>via SMTP by only getting your email address.
No they couldn't; my provider's SMTP server would reject the MAIL
command. They need my password to get into any of my providers
servers. See RFC 4954 and RFC 3207.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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