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austeros · Nov 27, 2003, 11:43 PM

wtf? its from me? how the hell can i be getting spam from myself, when i sure as hell dont send it?

guess i should change my password again.

starman · Nov 27, 2003, 11:46 PM

No, it's someone spoofing the email to look like it's from you.

Mike

austeros · Nov 27, 2003, 11:58 PM

how in the blue hell can they do that? mail.app seems to think its from me. what gives?

i check the reply address and its mine. piece of monkey sh*t.

i hate spammers.

oh happy thanksgiving to all my american buddies out there

Hannah W · Nov 28, 2003, 12:03 AM

As far as I understand, it's not from you at all! If I wanted to, *I* could send you an email, and have it say its from you. It can still use their mail server, but just put your email address in the header.

Mail then sees your email address in the header, and replaces it with your name, since it knows that address belongs to you.

Don't stress, I get mail from my name and email address all the time. They just duplicate the to and from fields to make you pay attention. Stress less dude.

Apple Pro Underwear · Nov 28, 2003, 12:07 AM

Originally posted by Hannah W:
As far as I understand, it's not from you at all! If I wanted to, *I* could send you an email, and have it say its from you. It can still use their mail server, but just put your email address in the header.

Mail then sees your email address in the header, and replaces it with your name, since it knows that address belongs to you.

Don't stress, I get mail from my name and email address all the time. They just duplicate the to and from fields to make you pay attention. Stress less dude.

yup

beat me to it.

Hannah W · Nov 28, 2003, 12:09 AM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
yup

beat me to it.

What colour is your "Pro Underwear"?. Are they Apple Pro Boxers or Apple Pro Briefs?

austeros · Nov 28, 2003, 12:26 AM

thanks, just pisses me off

ThinkInsane · Nov 28, 2003, 02:38 AM

Originally posted by Hannah W:
What colour is your "Pro Underwear"?. Are they Apple Pro Boxers or Apple Pro Briefs?

Apple Pro Thong. It ain't a pretty thing...

Spheric Harlot · Nov 28, 2003, 07:39 AM

Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
Apple Pro Thong. It ain't a pretty thing...

Just thank God the days of translucent hardware are over.

-s*

ironknee · Nov 28, 2003, 07:24 PM

i also get those emails junk...grrrrr!!!

lately, i get a lot of returned mail that i didn't send to people i don't know...what's the point?

thePurpleGiant · Nov 28, 2003, 07:28 PM

Originally posted by ironknee:
i also get those emails junk...grrrrr!!!

lately, i get a lot of returned mail that i didn't send to people i don't know...what's the point?

Well - if you think that you sent it, you will actually read the whole thing to see who you sent it to, and why it came back.

Thus, they have made you read their spam. It's all about making sure people don't ignore them.

bradoesch · 09:55 PM

Forging the headers for the email to make it look like it's coming from you isn't the worst of it. They can also forge the rest of the header, which makes it a bit tricky to find out where the email actually did come from. But if you go View->Message->Long Headers in Mail, you should be able to determine where the email was sent from. When I get frustrated by spam, I sometimes try and figure it out, then forward the message to [email protected]. I've had a few positive responses.
I believe this newfangled IPv6 is going to make it tricky (or impossible?) to forge email headers.

edit: Added a link for IPv6, as if someone would be interested...