Christopher Faylor wrote: > The spam trap has caught a few attempts from people who are attempting > to use 'cygwin at cygwin dot com' (i.e., the actual email address) as > their "From: " email address. Please don't do that. It won't work. > This From: address has been used to send spam so its use as a From: > address has been blocked.
Not to mention that forging an email address that you have no authority or permission from the relevant domain owner to use is a ToS breach at pretty much every ISP under the sun and arguably even a criminal offence in some jurisdictions. And it's network abuse. Don't do it. If you want to use a munged address, either 1) use a made-up address at a domain that you own or have the explicit permission of the owner to use 2) append ".invalid" or otherwise use a pretend domain name that cannot possibly exist 3) use a throwaway hotmail or mailinator account or 4) consult the address-munging FAQ for further explanations information and advice. http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html cheers, DaveK PS: TINLC! -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
