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Re: mail port

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Damian Reeves)
Thu Nov 9 15:16:03 1995

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 16:48:44 +0000 (GMT)
From: Damian Reeves <djr1003@cam.ac.uk>
To: "Ross F. Jimenez" <rfjimen@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951108221322.16290B-100000@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Ross F. Jimenez wrote:

> I have a question... you can telnet to a mail port (25) and send mail 
> from it,,to any person, and put it's from anybody you want, are you not 
> suppose to do this,, or can anybody do this, can the mail be tracked ?? 
> It would seem like a big security flaw if you could send false mail so 
> easily... ??? 

Why is this being discussed in the 'www-security' list?


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