Uh, so you want to send real mail, but with forged headers with a fake from address?
Just set the from address in your account/make up a new one, that goes nowhere. The net result will be the same, a mail that people wont be able to reply to. I can see that going down 'well' on public lists. On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 22:07 -0500, Sudhakar Govindavajhala wrote: > thanks Lonnie, Christopher, Simran and Not Zed for replies. > > Lonnie: > >From my experience, human intervention will not slow the dy/dx of spam. > > > > That being said I think it is impossible for a legitimate message to be > > sent without a "FROM:" header as the SMTP server asks for it before the > > DATA transaction begins. > > > > I will have a from header, but finally I will just forge the header to > have something else. > > >Sudhakar, I have tried to offer you some ideas, but you seem to have > all > > the answers. I wonder why you are even posting to a mailing list in the > > first place. > > Yes, I did some homework a bit before posting. But then, I wanted to take advantage > of more knowledgeable people there too. :-) > > > Simran, that filter idea was a good one. I did not now about filters > earlier. I think for it to work, I need to somehow send the mail to > SMTP directly (by running an SMTP server) from my script. But then, > evolution tries to send the mail too and I would not want to send the > mail twice. I need to think more about this to prevent evolution from > sending the mail. > > Not Zed, > > > > You should just write a script to make and send the mail directly, not > > use a client. > > > Hmm, I want to use evolution for its GUI. Yes, sending the mail directly by > using the filter is a good idea. But then I need to prevent evolution from actually > delivering the mail too. > I would not want to send ppl two copies. > > > > > > Just copy an existing message and change the from address when you send > > it. You also need to do stuff with the smtp protocol if you want to > > more accurately study how spam is more likely sent. I'm not sure why > > you want to, there's so many examples of it out there! > > Well, sometimes I send some mails to mailing lists and they actually end up being > archived > on the web. Thus my email address is exposed for spam harvesting. Thus I am thinking > that I should rewrite > the from header also when I send the mails so that I avoid exposing my email address > to bots. > > > So the problem now is how to prevent evolution from actually delivering > the mail. Ideas? > > thanks all for the efforts! > > Sudhakar. > > On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 21:28, Not Zed wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 11:21 -0500, Sudhakar Govindavajhala wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 02:34, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 23:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Now, **each** time I send a mail I would like to be able to change the > > > > > >From field accordingly. Is there a way I can do it in evolution? > > > > > Obviously doing this in settings is not an option. (It is a pain to do it. > > > > > But for research, it is worth the pain.) > > > > > > > > Tools->Accounts->New > > > > > > > > Create an account with the email address you want, set the SMTP but > > > > leave the incoming server info blank. When you are composing an email, > > > > use the From: drop-down to select the email address you want this > > > > particular email to be from. > > > > > > > > > > Nah. that is not what I want. I want to be able to use lets say 100 > > > different addresses. In the solution you proposed, I will have to use > > > 100 different settings. A pain. All I want is to be able to type my > > > email address, the way you type a recipient address. > > > > > > > You should just write a script to make and send the mail directly, not > > use a client. > > > > Just copy an existing message and change the from address when you send > > it. You also need to do stuff with the smtp protocol if you want to > > more accurately study how spam is more likely sent. I'm not sure why > > you want to, there's so many examples of it out there! > -- > Sudhakar Govindavajhala Department of Computer Science > Graduate Student, Princeton University > Ph : (c) +1 609 273 8407 (o) +1 609 258 1763 > +1 609 258 1798 > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sudhakar > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
