Peter,

Thanks for the explanation, and Meir, thanks for asking the question.  I
knew the basics, but the detailed explanation was helpful.

-- 


Kendall

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950




On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Peter Hunsberger <
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> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Meir Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > EXPLAIN PLEASE  what are the diff with spoofing please
> >
>
> This isn't a dead horse, it's something that every e-mail user needs
> to understand.  The confusion here indicates that many people on the
> list don't understand the difference...
>
> In general, an e-mail account is relayed by a server some where and to
> get at that server (hack the e-mail account) you need to know a
> password or two and / or get direct access the server.  Either one of
> those is possible, but spoofing is much easier so it's far more
> likely.  Spoofing is where someone creates an e-mail (using a server
> that they run or control) and creates fake e-mail headers that make
> the e-mail look like it comes from someone else on some other server.
> Spoofing is very easy to do, all you need to do is subscribe to an
> e-mail  list (like this one) and harvest some candidate e-mail
> addresses.  You can then create fake e-mails that look like they came
> from some legitimate user some where else (like a subscriber on this
> list).
>
> When you get an e-mail, if you know what you are doing, you can
> examine the e-mail headers to see if the originating server matches up
> with what the e-mail address claims.  How you do this exactly depends
> on the e-mail client you use, but for example, on G-mail you can use
> the "show original" option to look at the details of the e-mail and
> see most of the headers.
>
> You can't really protect your e-mail from being spoofed if you use it
> in public, so you should really keep at least two e-mail addresses,
> one you use in public and one you use for private use and things like
> e-commerce.
>
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