Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

Joe Rhett jrhett at meer.net
Fri Sep 10 08:57:51 UTC 2004


Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote 
> > Same thing applies for 'simple' forwarding via sendmails '~/.forward'
> > mechanism.  the mail server 'accepts' the mail from the original source,
> > and then 're-sends' to the new destination.  That re-send originates as
> > the _forwarding_party_, WITH an 'envelope from' of that forwarding
> > party,
 
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 09:55:55AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Sorry, this is simply not true (sendmail, postfix, etc, always keep
> the original envelope from when forwarding).
 
I'm not sure where "true" diverges from reality in your analysis, but
perhaps you should create one of those mail environments and test before
you put your foot in your mouth again?

-- 
Joe Rhett
Senior Geek
Meer.net



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