Re: Re: Warning Spammer

At 14:08 11.06.2003, Kevin Saenz said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >I think we are waaaay off topic. >But how do you know if they are sending from a legit email account >I know if I was a spammer I would be using made up ones like >123487549@aol.com joe9358467@hotmail.com how hard is it to forge >email addresses? --------------------[snip]-------------------- It's extremely simple - just put any email address as "From" address: mail('ksaenz@spinaweb.com.au', 'Buy me!', 'Here\'s some spam for you', "From: 123487549@aol.com\r\n" . "Reply-To: ksaenz@spinaweb.com.au\r\n" . "X-Mailer: PHPSpam/" . phpversion() . "\r\n", "-f123487549@aol.com"); The last parameter is a sendmail parameter which may be omitted (doesn't work in safe mode anyway, see http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php). -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/