On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Randy Pearson wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 14:25, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> > How is it anymore of a spam hole than a spammer forging the "From:"
> > address?
> 
> I use SPF on my domains to detect and prevent "From:" address spoofing.  SPF 
> is not designed to analyze "Reply-To" addresses however.
> 
> I have had a few pieces of spam slip through my filters over the past couple 
> of years exactly because of this loophole.

It's up to several times a day on my Wife's account. (just recently)

The test I did just after Jason's post would indicate that there is
no difference. :-(

I too use SPF but it looks like it only addresses the from address in
the envelope not the "From:" header.

So my question might be, since From: & Reply-To: are so trivialy forged
why do we trust it?
Isn't that the whole idea of using the envelope-from the MTA provides?

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Tim Rice                                Multitalents    (707) 887-1469
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