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what's this (email question)
From: Glenn English <ghe () slsware com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:51:30 -0600
Email with headers similar to this has begun showing up in my spam box. The last (and only) Received: says it came from localhost. Am I owned? :-) I didn't think it is possible to forge the last Received:. I've been getting bounces for mail never sent from here, but I just assumed it was a spammer forging my domain name. Maybe not?? I notice Spamassassin says the HELO was forged -- I don't understand how this could happen. (server.slsware.com is my SMTP server. indra.net is a local ISP, with whom I have an account; I have a .forward to myself at slsware in my directory at indra.) -------------------------------------------------------------- From faygaspar () flowcadillac com Fri Feb 11 16:54:29 2005 Received: from localhost by server.slsware.com with SpamAssassin (2.64 2004-01-11); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:54:31 -0700 From: "Alfonso Sprague" <faygaspar () flowcadillac com> To: barrett () indra net Subject: ***SPAM*** Mortgage New Update Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:50:08 -0300 Message-Id: <2QBVlvR91d () knowhow com> X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on server.slsware.com X-Spam-Pyzor: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.5 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_NET_HELO,NO_COST, RATWARE_EMWAC autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Level: ***** MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_420D45B7.2C897397" X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.999777, version=0.13.7.2, algorithm=fisher Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 37323 -------------------------------------------------------------- My MTA's Received: usually looks something like this: -------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mail.slsware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D13FB9D for <ghe () slsware com>; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:23:17 -0600 (MDT) -------------------------------------------------------------- mail and server.slsware.com are the same machine and IP. Postfix calls it mail, and reverse DNS *on that machine* calls it server. Reverse DNS from the Internet calls it something having to do with an unused block (long story). -- Glenn English ghe () slsware com GPG ID: D0D7FF20
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