> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: >>> sorry. > > In > <2076536027233087.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu>, > on 04/02/2013 > at 05:26 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> > said: > > >I got spam e-mails from something like absa @ absa .co .z or sb @ > >standardbank .co .z (I placed spaces in these e-mail addresses for > >posting) or so. > > Nothing in the From header field has an relevance to determining the > actual sender.
AFAIK, You can't rely on *anything* in the mail or headers to identify the original submitter/sender. Of course, you could see reliable (I think) from where the mail was redirected immediately before your mailbox (that would be your mail provider) but the rest is totally spoofable. Regards Thomas Berg ____________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist z/OS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
