On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Maxim K. wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003, Moshe Kaminsky wrote about "Re: mail origin verification": > > > That's what I meant. The fact that some technion address appear in the > > > headers is not a big consolation. If you send the mail from your own > > > machine, it might come from localhost.localdomain (as it does in my > > > case). Basically, you are saying that people have absolutely no problem > > > sending e-mails that appear to come from me. I find it quite amazing. > > > > Welcome to the world of SMTP (the "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", the > maybe "Welcome to Life?" : > I don't understand what is the problem making this with a regular mail. > you can always write the source address whatever you want, > but the stamps will discover which post office really sent the letter. > this is a problem of mailing system.
It does. Look at the "Received:" headers. They list the source IP and the IPs of all the mail servers your message went through. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want. -- Tobias Smollet ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
