On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 10:05, Chris Kosanovich wrote: > Any way on to the serious part of the discussion, i looked through the > header file and foudn that it had been sent by someone in my group but > the odd thing is that it was sent from a @yahoo.com address. Now i want > everyone's opinion (well... maybe not EVERYONE's) can they use outlook, > or something similar, to pop messages from yahoo? (If so then i totally > understand how this got sent.) Or is yahoo a strickly web-based email > system in which case either someone else hijacked their email and > manually sends out these emails, or this person is experimenting with > trojans and such and figured unleashing them on a GE class would be a > good start.
In this case, the address was indeed hijacked. Because of the way SMTP works, you can say the message comes from anybody and your typical mail server will just accept that at face value. It is possible to use Yahoo mail without using webmail. Either you can pay for POP3 or forwarding (it's like $4 a month) or use something like YoSucker[1]. Corey 1. http://yosucker.sourceforge.net/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
