[ILUG] Reminder: Please Respond to S.'s Invitation

Colm Buckley colm at tuatha.org
Mon Jan 12 14:22:48 GMT 2009


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Rory Browne <rbmlist at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Fair enough, but I assumed that if they faked the from address, then spam
> filter would reject it as having a faked-from field.


How would it tell?  Use of SPF records isn't really widespread enough to
have good spoof detection.  There's nothing tricky about "faking" a from:
field; there is simply no authentication built into SMTP.

Colm


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