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Re: spam sender addresses

Subject:Re: spam sender addresses
Posted by:"Ben Hochstrasser" (bh..@tiscali123^h^h^h.ch)
Date:Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:21:44

theo wrote:

>> From: "correy mann" <minettelooney@easydns.com> <-- oops, display name
>> doesn't resemble email address. Email address domain name doesn't match
>> issuing MTA's domain name
>
> How can you detect this? Is this not allowed?
>>

I said that technically (per the RFC), all examples are allowed. I just
meant that such entries hint at spam. 99% of all legit email I get are from
people who send via their provider's mail server. (and those who don't, use
a 3rd party MTA with authentication (which would be evident somewhere in
the MTA food chain))

--
Ben

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