On Sun 11 Apr 2004 at 19:07:57, Phillip Hellewell said: > Can someone answer a question for me? You know how easy it is for > SPAMMERS to spoof the from address, right? Well, how about the To line? > How is it possible to spoof the To line and have the e-mail arrive > somewhere else?
Just as easy, because in the SMTP session, you specify: RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and then you can put whatever you darn well please in the body. The #1 most effective spam filter is to add a procmail rule that dumps anything *not* specifically sent to your address into a "spam" folder. I have a catch-all rule at the end of my .procmailrc: :0: * !^(to|cc):.*(soren|stharward|sth22)@.*byu\.(edu|net) .spam/ That's the extent of my spam filtering, and it works wonderfully well. -- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://theboard.byu.edu/ "Americans are always attempting to run away from conformity, but unfortunately they always start running in the same direction." -- Art Buchwald
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