HTF DO YOU SEND SOMETHING WITH NO RETURN PATH IN THE HEADERS?!?!

[PsychoAndy]

I just got some spam,

Return-Path: <>
Received: from nymx01.mgw.rr.com ([24.92.226.31])
by flmta03.tampabay.rr.com
(InterMail vK.4.04.00.00 201-232-137 license a804abafc7e9791b9a878dc72e62812f)
with ESMTP
id <20020718204215.CURS15630.flmta03@nymx01.mgw.rr.com>
for <xxxx@cfl.rr.com>; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:42:15 -0400
Received: from vnn.vn ([210.15.33.106])
by nymx01.mgw.rr.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g6IKXgZd019559;
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:42:13 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <bZfHeUPJVG8_3+Wi@dFCyjC-YfwaEaB>
From: <>
Bcc:
Subject: Need a University Diploma?
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 05:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

.....how? i get one every now and then and it kinda makes me wonder.

BTW, spamcop is down so i cant report it

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

You either write a simple SMTP server that doesn't use certain header fields or just use a normal SMTP server and a TCP/IP traffic filter which replaces the header fields with "".

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Oh, btw some SMTP servers queue messages even if they don't have a return addy.