On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Rory Browne <rbmlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fair enough, but I assumed that if they faked the from address, then spam
> filter would reject it as having a faked-from field.
How would it tell? Use of SPF records isn't really widespread enough to
have good spoof detection. There's nothing tricky about "faking" a from:
field; there is simply no authentication built into SMTP.
Colm
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