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Article #813Re: Mail security
From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:27
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:27
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"Asger J๏ฟฝrgensen" <junk@Asger-P.dk> wrote in message news:MPG.2155798594fb7d3f9897fa@newsgroups.borland.com... > I have many points on the net for both sending and > recieving so I will not be able to catch a bouncing mail. > I was thinking more in the line of adding some kind of > date to the header or the body that could not be faked, > witch I then could check when recieving. Anything in an email message can be faked. There is a hole in the SMTP protocol that allows clients to send whatever email data they want and it gets delivered as-is. The only way you are going to be able to generate something that you can verify that can't be easily forged is if you use encryption. Gambit
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