Re: Protection against fake mails

[Nick Owen <nickowen () mindspring com>]

WALI wrote:
> If we a do a google search for the following string "Send free, 
> anonymous and easy fake email", one of the sites we get is 
> 'deadfake.com'...and many others. I can send an email to myself from 
> myself by filling in the two fields at the website.
>
> Technically, what such sites seems to be doing is that, such mailers add 
> an X-Mailer attribute to the message header indicating the message 
> origin, and an X-Originating-Ip (a real one).
>
> How do I guard against such emails originating from fake email 
> impersonations. Is there something I can do at our email gateway, proxy 
> or exchange sever (2003) levels?

As an aside, what a great spam target  collection tool.

Nick

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