On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 11:39, Pablo Manalastas wrote: > The following mail item, which I allegedly sent (I did not) > bounced back to me from PLUG, because the mail item was > too big. I never sent this mail to PLUG. I believe that > some spam mailer program somewhere got hold of my email address > and used it to send this spam mail (possibly carrying a virus?) > to many different addresses. How does a ligitimate email address > owner prevent his email address from being illegally used like > this?
No portable/RFC-compliant way to do this, as it's an inherent weakness of the SMTP specification. There are already proposals of handling this (e.g. SPF entries in DNS) but I doubt they're going the right way. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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