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Old 10-30-2008, 10:16 AM
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Just a caveat...Anything you view inside the email (body or headers) can be spoofed. Or to say it another way, the email you receive in your Inbox contains everything that the sending server transmits following the SMTP DATA command/verb. There is no requirement that anything inside this "email envelope" (the RFC822) must be accurate. The data that follows the DATA command can be true or false, depending on the design of the MTA application that is sending it. Some sending MTAs routinely (and correctly) declare the source IP address. But that IP address is not *necessarily* correct. What *cannot* be spoofed is the IP address which the sending MTA provides in the original TCP connection--(the sending MTA must tell the receiving MTA where to reply with its ACK packets). This server-to-server negotiation of the delivery of the email is controlled by the RFC821 protocol. The RFC821 (delivery) protocol and RFC822 (envelope packaging) protocol are two entirely different things.
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Old 11-15-2008, 02:54 PM
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how do you know that you are not receiving all the emails?

spoofing emails (sending fake emails that appear to have originated from your address) is relatively easy to do

intercepting incoming emails is much more challenging... unless, of course, the "hacker" has your password

try changing your password
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Old 11-22-2008, 12:22 AM
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Hi guys,
I am new here and have a quick question.
Suppose I use a tunnel proxy like 'freegate' and send mails , then would anyone at the least chance get to know that I sent it?

PS: freegate is a small app used to get u into tunnel proxy
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Old 11-22-2008, 12:39 AM
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totally depends on how secure the proxy is and how motivated the recipient is...

try to send yourself an email through the proxy and take a look at the headers, see what kind of stuff is in there...
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