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Re: Faked From-Adress with my domain on them



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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:52:42PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:12:24AM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote:
> > Since there is no reaction to my private mail, I have to do this publicly.
> > 
> > Kevin Mark uses my domain 'waidele.info' in order to fake his from-adress.
> > I have asked him to stop it, but he still continues.
> > 
> > So once again, Kevin: Stop useing 'kevin@waidele.info' in your mail.
> 
> He isn't. He's using kevin@localhost. Something at your end is seeing
> the '@localhost' and rewriting it to your domain name. 

That's not right, either.  Sending something to @localhost never
leaves your box.  Try it right now, disconnect your machine from the
network and send something to yourself@localhost.

He's sending without a domain, your mail server is adding it on
thinking it's local.  Your mailserver is doing the right thing, Mark's
is borken.

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