So this is just one more wonderful loophole in the TCP protocal. The entire internet is shot full of loopholes allowing all this spam and virii to happen. So what is the prevention? Just allow this to happen? Sit back and smile? -Kerry
At 10:34 AM 3/5/04 -0600, you wrote: >Open up your email client. Go to settings. Where it shows your 'Name', change it to >'George W. Bush'. Now find where it shows your email address. Change it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > >Now you know how to forge an email address. As you can hopefully see, there is no way to stop that. > >-Alan > >>Hi all: Is there any way to prevent spammers from forging an email address? >>I do not understand how this is even done? Does not there have to be spam >>software on the forged/host computer to do this? I have antivirus software >>running, do I have a virus on my server computer? >> Recently I received a letter from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not have such an >>email and never have. The letter was very alarming and read as follows. I am >>a one man operation, and certainly know I did not send such a message. What >>concerns me, is that my customers may receive such messages, thinking they >>are from me. > >This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > Rock Solid Software (tm) > > Very respectfully, your obedient servant. Brig. Gen. Johnston Pettigrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW server hosting Http://mntnweb.com Kerry Barlow p.o. box 21 kirkwood ny 13795 607-775-1575 This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite Rock Solid Software (tm)
