ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area Did you ever get an Email from YOURSELF?

I get a lot of e-mails with 'esbchgu' as sender or in the subject line, as I have 'esbchgu' as user name at hotmail. To a human it's pretty obvious that it's just some random letters, not my name. A computer can't tell. Thus, I can simply delete anything that starts with 'Hi Esbchgu' or the like.

Yes, I get messages apparently from myself from time to time.

As has been mentioned above, the "problem" with the e-mail system is that the From field can be set to show anything the sender wants it to show. No checking is performed on that field anywhere along the way -- Each system that gets the message determines where to send it on to next but the from field is just passed along intact.

There are always the message headers to trace back, if you can be bothered.

For anyone who doesn't have the appropriate tools already on their system, here are a couple of useful sites for tracing domains, IP addresses, etc.
http://www.samspade.org/
http://www.geektools.com



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 10-07-2003).]

Nice references. . .Thanks, Paul.

Bill:
Now that you asked the question.....I see e-mail (junk) that comes from most of my e-mail address. Spam senders cahnge the "@xxxx" somehow I guess. I talk to myself enough, I don't have to write & then read it.

Used to be "junk mail", then "spam" and now it seems to be the FAX sales pitches. That's another thread.

John

Bill,
e-mail comin' at ya...S

Got it!!

Where's the Pole?