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- Subject: Re: Possible spam?
- From: Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:04:50 +0100
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:40:51PM -0600, HyperHacker wrote:
> It looks like some jerk has recently started spoofing my address in
> their spam. I'm curious if they possibly got access to the account or
> just forged the headers.
Remember that the From: field in email is completely meaningless. It's
the equivilent of writing "From: The Queen" on the back of an envelope.
Spammers routinely abuse this trust flaw by setting the From: field to
be one of the addresses in their mailing list. Real addresses in the
>From field are more likely to get through.
> Has there been spam coming to the list from this address recently?
Not that I've noticed, but the mail server that runs lua-l is pretty
anal about the submissions it accepts and processes.
B.
