Why the from and the sender are not the same thing?
Jonathan Arcand
jonathan.arcand at CEGEPTR.QC.CA
Tue Aug 20 15:35:31 IST 2002
Hi,
I received some messages like this:
> The following e-mail messages were found to have viruses in them:
>
> Sender: <Webmaster at cegeptr.qc.ca >
> Recipient: <infoprog at cegeptr.qc.ca>
> Subject: Scrolling
> MessageID: g7KE78FF002666
> Report: /g7KE78FF002666/Yzdsr.scr Found the W32/Klez.h at MM virus
!!!
> Windows Screensavers often hide viruses in email in Yzdsr.scr
>
> Full headers are:
> Return-Path: <g>
> Received: from Jcdyf (hurricane-ppp29.sorel.cognicase.net [64.254.11.35])
> by courrier.cegeptr.qc.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7KE78FF002666
> for <infoprog at cegeptr.qc.ca>; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:07:09 -0400
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:07:08 -0400
> Message-Id: <200208201407.g7KE78FF002666 at courrier.cegeptr.qc.ca>
> From: webmaster <webmaster at johnabbott.qc.ca>
> To: infoprog at cegeptr.qc.ca
> Subject: Scrolling
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary=BBowx3aO8i4OBHwS930B5Us0800A2M03
>
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I don't understand why the sender is webmaster at my.domain and in the header
is webmaster at johnabbott.qc.ca
The user's auto-response goes to webmaster at cegeptr.qc.ca
I'm using mailsanner 3.20-7 with no spam detection and Mcafee
Somenone knows what is my problem?
Thanks!
Jonathan
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