Please, explain, what does it mean?
"Yours will add a Received: header, and leave mine in tact."

As I understand this process in Imail example:

to connect any server you need to create first D*.SMD and Q*.SMD files. 
Lets say for example that I want to forge the header and send my mail
from 
my server1 throught your server2 to other server3.
First of all I modify the D file and insert in the first line something
familiar:

Received: from list.microsoft.com [666.666.666.666] by zombie.com with
ESMTP
  (SMTPD32-8.05) id AC37F47500BC; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:40:23 +0600

Then I try to connect to server2 to deliver this letter.

You server accept the connection. And now i _can't_ modify anything in
this D file,
Your server just download the copy of this D file and then insert this
legal line:

Received: from _NORMALHELO_ [_NORMAL.IP_] by server2.com with ESMTP
<-this is the open relay ip
  (SMTPD32-8.05) id AC37F47500BC; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:40:23 +0600
Received: from list.microsoft.com [666.666.666.666] by
server1.zombie.com with ESMTP
  (SMTPD32-8.05) id AC37F47500BC; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:40:23 +0600
...and forward mail to server3, then server3 insert next legal string

Your mean that you can modify the first line from server1?

Regards,
Dmitri Elgin,
http://imailzip.com


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 5:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Forwarding to AOL members - This is spam
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>Oh wise man, I'm really tired to read your answers, I do not mean, to 
>forge mail senders address. It is possible with Outlook Express. I mean

>to forge header Received: content.

This is pretty simple to explain.

When your mailserver receives an E-mail, it can't trust any of the
headers 
that the remote mailserver send it.  Therefore, you can only trust
headers 
that are added by your mailserver -- and in those headers, you can only 
trust information that you know is reliable.

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