Re: Validating email sender

[alan () manawatu planet org nz (Alan Brown)]

On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Squidge wrote:

> Of course, it is trivial to send a fake response to an auth query if you
> have privileges on the foreign site. The data you get back is only as
> valid as you make it.

And unfortunately there are a plethora of "fake" identds for Windows
machines.

It makes for interesting reading to see what the user@ of a ppp
connected PC is as it submits mail. Thankfully we use static IP so we
know who's sending what without having to resort to combing the logs.

AB