Re: forged from headers

Steve Mallett wrote:

> Running ASK for a day or so one of the concerns I've heard from folks 
> I've told has been that I end up spamming the poor folks whose real 
> email address are being used by the spammers in the from header.
>
> How much of a concern is this?? And how are folks using ASK dealing 
> with this to minimize the chance of sending some poor guys inbox into 
> oblivion??

Well, if you have the luxury of intercepting all mail you send on its 
way out, you can ignore comfirmations for mail that you didn't send.  So 
the answer to give them is to use a challenge/response spam protector 
themselves that sets headers nicely and eventually we'll all be in 
spam-free nirvaña :-).

Actually I think it would be nice to see the confirmation e-mails that 
people send back.  Due to a mail misconfiguration recently I've been 
seeing them and it's quite interesting to see what people write in 
response to my challenge :-).  At least that way you can respond to 
aggravated responses rather than remaining blithely ignorant ;-).

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