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7w17ch · 01-30-2005, 12:25 PM

hi all, its sunday and this has been nagging at me for a while...

so my school email is constantly bombarded with spam, and i mean a lot. i have the spamguard settings pretty high up, and a pretty extensive list of filters. i have managed to bring down the amount i actually see to a manageable level.
its mildly amusing seeing how they are trying to get past the spamguard.
things like morgage spelled in half "1337". or records spelled wrong. yeah, because when i see gross misspellings and writing like a 14yr. old i think nothing but fortune 500 baby.
yeah.
but as of recently i have been recieving emails with spoofed addresses. stuff like the to: feild is filled in with a different name than mine. so i have a two part question.
1) is it possible to make sure that the to feild says to me, otherwise the email gets deleted, like a filter but just to verify that the addresse is me.
2) how are they able to spoof that type of stuff? like the to and from feilds? is it an application that does it for them or do they have to manually set that info?

01-30-2005, 12:25 PM	#1 (permalink)
7w17ch Upright Location: 127.0.0.1	email questions hi all, its sunday and this has been nagging at me for a while... so my school email is constantly bombarded with spam, and i mean a lot. i have the spamguard settings pretty high up, and a pretty extensive list of filters. i have managed to bring down the amount i actually see to a manageable level. its mildly amusing seeing how they are trying to get past the spamguard. things like morgage spelled in half "1337". or records spelled wrong. yeah, because when i see gross misspellings and writing like a 14yr. old i think nothing but fortune 500 baby. yeah. but as of recently i have been recieving emails with spoofed addresses. stuff like the to: feild is filled in with a different name than mine. so i have a two part question. 1) is it possible to make sure that the to feild says to me, otherwise the email gets deleted, like a filter but just to verify that the addresse is me. 2) how are they able to spoof that type of stuff? like the to and from feilds? is it an application that does it for them or do they have to manually set that info?