On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 16:17, Patrick Ryan Vinson wrote: > I've heard of people being able to spoof these fields and put > information in there and have it show up as something different. > I can't really say for sure since I am not too familiar with it all > myself. However, have you tried sending an email to those accounts > and seeing if they come to you? If they don't then maybe those received > emails are some of those spoof ones that I have heard of. > That is a very insecure recommendation to just blatently suggest. 1. If it is spam and the user replies, it confirms a valid address. 2. If it comes from a virus/spam engine it is just extra garbage in the mail system. 3. Opening/replying to email from/to unknown persons is ASKING for more problems, and is what spammers/virus writers count on. Unfortunately, the main distribution method for most of the virus/trojan/malware stuff on the internet today is email. Teaching users caution and how to safely do a little detective work is much better than just saying "try a reply", or "send email to the bogus address". The other reply to this that suggested he check the headers is a more useful (and safer) tool. > > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 14:07 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote: > > I am receiving mail addressed to someone else. My mail address is > > r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx I have received mail addressed to: > > r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and from: > > joe-blow@xxxxxxxxxxxx These are not forwarded mails. How is this possible? > > I use fetchmail to receive my mail. Is there anyway to stop this? > > These are just two examples. I have received similar miss addressed mail from > > other names also. Can a procmail rule be used to stop this? If so what would that > > rule be? > > > > -- > > Richard E Miles > > Federal Way WA. > > registered linux user 46097 > >
