fantomposterPhantom PosterPremium
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Independence, OH | reply to fatmanskinny
Re: Spammers are already getting around this! said by fatmanskinny:
How? If Bellsouth's e-mail only recognize @bellsouth.net e-mails for outgoing, spammers just put a fictitious e-mail ending in @bellsouth.net and add a different REPLY TO e-mail when you try and reply to that @bellsouth.net address.
Maybe I misread what you ment, but outgoing smtp on all ISP's is much different than you describe.
Bellsouth does not look at the from address. They look at two things. One, if the to address is to bellsouth it accepts the email and delivers it locally.
Or two if the to address is not bellsouth they look at the IP address that the connection is coming from. If the sending connection is on Bellsouth's network it accepts the email and delivers it offsite. If the IP is from somewhere else, it refuses the email and returns a 5XX relaying denied error.
The from address is never looked at, for just the reason you mention, anyone can get around it.
Some ISP's do use authentication, either smtp username and password or pop before smtp. |
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1 edit | I use to work for Blah Inc. Their outgoing mail server was mail.blah.com. Whenever I tried to send an e-mail from blah@yahoo.com by using their outgoing mail server, it was blocked and I got various error messages in the Outlook Express window that shows an e-mail's outgoing progress.
Reason why I couldn't send Yahoo through company's e-mail is due to them not only blocking port 25 but also making it so that outgoing mail required authentication.
If I am not mistaken, when a company requires you to use OutGoing Mail Authentication, they are checking to see if you have a valid user account and password associated with that company. See images below.
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fantomposterPhantom PosterPremium
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Independence, OH | said by fatmanskinny:
If I am not mistaken, when a company requires you to use OutGoing Mail Authentication, they are checking to see if you have a valid user account and password associated with that company. See images below.
Yep. But you wont find many ISP's that do that. They only do IP verification. So the fix to your above problem was to not use the company smtp for outgoing, but to use their ISP's. |
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