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["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Alexey Eremenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx> [08-08-08 18:55]:
> > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Friday 08 August 2008 06:28:09 am Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > > > Kai: BTW: In your case even the Name was emulates correctly in GMail,
> > > > which means that GMail doesn't checks it at all.
> > >
> > > No, that had nothing to do with gmail. It never went through gmail.
> > I thought GMail would scan for all suspecious emails,
> > and according to logical something that arrived into my GMail, with
> > "From: al4321@xxxxxxxxx" - my email address, but never sent from my
> > account is spoof.
> >
> > It means, that GMail isn't protected :(
>
> No, it does not.  The "From:" *address* is spoofed.  The mail does not
> go thru gmail's servers except/unless delivering *to* a gmail addr.
Yes, but I got this email into my GMail account, which means that
GMail server are involved in the process.
And they could check if email with such content ever left my account beforehand.
And if not, reject email.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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