[MlMt] Really weird bug--mail sent from wrong account

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Fri Sep 23 08:22:24 EDT 2016


On 22 Sep 2016, at 21:42, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 22 Sep 2016, at 5:00, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 22 Sep 2016, at 6:56, Kee Hinckley wrote:
> [...]
>>> The dangerous thing is that Google SMTP doesn't reject the message 
>>> for being from an unknown account--it changes the headers.
>>
>> I also consider that a bug, but I guess Google does not see it that 
>> way.
>
> There are reasons that there is not much spam coming out of GMail 
> servers but LOTS coming out of Yahoo and Microsoft. This is one of 
> them: GMail "corrects" the From header and envelope sender address to 
> match the authenticated sender.

Just to be clear, I only wanted to imply that I think Gmail should just 
reject the message instead of altering it.

-- 
Benny


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