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From: Mark Himsley <mark@mdsh.com>
To: Jim Richardson <treyvan@wtfo-guru.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: I've been spoofed!!!
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 06:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a7vb1usj8ec5oel8c285dafgngp9rqta0i@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1008073153.1673.1.camel@athon>

On 11 Dec 2001 06:19:13 -0600 you wrote:

>I can assure there is no Mike with an email address in my domain. And my
>mail agent doesn't relay, so how and why would this spammer spoof my
>domain name?

The From address was set to just 'Mike' and your email server, which is
setup to comply with RFC's, put your domain on the end. My copy of the email
had my email servers domain put on the end. This is standard for email
servers and not something for the cygwin list.

-- 
Mark Himsley
In Acton

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-12-11 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-10  5:27 An Amazing Program! Mike
2001-12-11  4:37 ` I've been spoofed!!! Jim Richardson
2001-12-11  6:27   ` Mark Himsley [this message]

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