On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, at 18:30, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> > SMTP is inherently insecure

> OTOH, the envelope ... fields can be trivially spoofed

For the recipient of an email, the SMTP envelope data is stripped off
by the receiving system's SMTP server, then - often - placed inside 
the email in a header whose format depends on the mail system
concerned.  For example I see X-Delivered-To: headers in some of 
my mail.

How would someone spoof that, unless they had access to my 
mail hosting company's servers?

-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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