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In article <820740712snz@microvst.demon.co.uk>
           tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk "Anthony R. Gold" writes:

>Nothing in the envelope will alter what appears in the header.

Not quite true.  The receiving site will see

  From error@siberia...

(assuming it's using KA9Q, I don't know what other mail servers do).

>or something similar.  And if your smtp server keeps a log, the address
>will appear there also.  If you subscribe to any mail lists, you will see
>that the correctly delivered mail make no mention of you in the header.

Again, not strictly true.  There is at least one list server
implementation out there which looks at the envolope, not the From: or
Reply-To: headers (I hit it, which is why I know; I wanted to use a
different mailbox to receive the mailing list so changed the headers but
not the line in the .wrk file, and it came back to my usual mailbox).

With regard to how 'legal' it is, it's perfectly OK if it's to your own
machine.  If I were to put "tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk" in there and
altered the headers to match then that would be attempted forgery, which
although it isn't banned by the RFCs will not be popular <g>...

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