On Sat, May 29, 2004, John Nicholls wrote: > I have just started getting some notifications of undeliverable emails > allegedly sent by me, but actually from someone who has apparently > spoofed my email address. Does this point to any shortcoming in my > system that I need to fix?
No, there's nothing you can do about it. Anyone can stick your name and address in the From: header, and anyone can use it as the SMTP sender. And increasingly, spam and viruses do just this, using addresses from their databases. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
