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Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Fwd: Forged "from" Daily News 0190225717
From:       Jean-Philippe <joaophilippe.mb.monteiro () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-04-30 10:28:08
Message-ID: 200704301728.18244.joaophilippe.mb.monteiro () gmail ! com
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On Monday 30 April 2007 04:39, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, let me tell you that I am speaking without knowing the
> internals of neither spamassassin nor gmail.
>
> Since it is quite obvious that the From header can be easily forged, I
> think it would be stupid to ban mail based on that header. If you find an
> smtp server that is not doing reverse resolving of incoming mail, there is
> absolutely no problem for you to type any address in the From field. That
> is why I don't think that reporting this mail as spam would result in your
> address being blocked by either gmail or spamassassin.
>
> The IP address of the sender, however, has a pretty good chance of ending
> up in a blacklist.

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