Re: recent spam to this list
In article <[🔎] 20031010120406.GD2526@balrog.logic.univie.ac.at>,
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>SMTP AUTH is no magic solution, you'd have to start routing mail by
>sender instead of recipient.
>
>Take myself, sharing a computer at home with somebody else who uses a
>completely different domain for her e-mail. Currently I simply take
>all mail and throw it to my current[1] internet access provider's
>smarthost. I would have to change the mail routing to send mail from
>me to smarthost A and mail from the other person to smarthost B.
>
>Even myself alone uses different domains for my mail, e.g. very rarely
>@debian.org.
You know, there is a difference between Envelope-From (SMTP MAIL FROM:)
and whatever you put in the From: header. They don't have to be the same.
Unfortunately, almost noone seems to realize this (in particular,
developers of mail software for the windows platform ...)
Mike.
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