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Re: [Asrg] Spooked mail addresses

2004-02-04 10:17:05

On Feb 4, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Mark Foster wrote:

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:34:03PM +0000, Peter Sergeant wrote:
It's true that there's no technical way for the *recipient* to verify
that you authorized a message. However, I'd say your logic doesn't hold

No, it is not true. Header analysis can reveal whether the relaying hosts
sequence & pattern in the Received: headers is consistent with previous
(bonafide) messages received from the sender.

Except for the last hop, this is all trivially forgeable. SPF works to tackle this issue in a pretty sound way. I'm surprised that it hasn't been brought up in this conversation.

George


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