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Re: [Asrg] Some data on the validity of MAIL FROM addresses

Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> Wed, 21 May 2003 19:41 UTC

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Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:28:44 -0400

At 11:32 AM 5/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>BTW, it would be instructive if someone who has access to one, and the
>know-how to decompile it, could examine its sending code and indicate
>whether it uses randomly-generated addresses, or a static list of existing
>ones loaded from a config file, for the addresses used in the MAIL FROM
>SMTP command and From: header.

I think it would me helpful if we can get all the information we can out of 
such tools. Is there anyone that can provide such information or perhaps 
have some "white-hat" friends that do?

Yakov  

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