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Junjiro Okajima wanted us to know:

>and recently, particulary in this mailing list, they use valinux.co.jp
>in the domain-part of From: header. same as mine!
>of course, everybody knows it is a lie by checking Received: headers
>or something.

Most mail servers when they receive mail don't want just a
  From: username
Instead, they convert username to username@FQDN.  Where they get that
FQDN from is up to the mail server.  It would seem really intelligent to
use the value from the HELO or EHLO.  But what if they used
"valinux.co.jp"?  Then your mail server appended that in, doing some of
the dirty work for the spammers of making it hard to track down who
really sent it.

What it boils down to is the only thing you can _really_ trust is the IP
address of the machine that hit your mail server.
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