Klarinet Archive - Posting 000849.txt from 2000/12

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] weird mail? (off topic)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:29:36 -0500

Not this message. I have the logs - one connection, valid IP & reverse
records. If you notice - I use qmail, which is significantly harder to spoof
than sendmail, too - it does a lot of checking on each wrapper to eliminate
this common "hijacking" of mail machines.

From: "Éric Würbel" <wurbel@-----.fr>
> Le ven, 15 déc 2000 15:00:03, Mark Charette a écrit :
> > But "it" sent perfectly valid headers that show it originated from your
> > ISP,
> > if not from your machine:
> > [cut]
> > If _you_ didn't send it then it appears as if someone else has access to
> > your account. It ain't a problem with technology ...
> > -----------
> > Mark C.
> > ----- Original Message -----
>
> Well, my first post in Klarinet won't be "in topic"...
> Excuse me but, although everything in the header seems to
> indicate that the mail has been posted from account "redcedar",
> this header could have been faked using a preceding "true" message.

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