On 15 Apr, 2011, at 13:48 PM, Volker Braun wrote:

> On Friday, April 15, 2011 9:43:21 PM UTC+1, Justin C. Walker wrote:
> You can't rely on mail with this in the header:
>    From: j...@wolfram.com
> You have to check the detailed headers to be (somewhat) sure that the 'From' 
> address is valid.  Most spammers either cobble together 'From' (as well as 
> 'To') addresses, and may even forge most (if not all) of the detailed header 
> content.
> 
> 
> Its true that its easy to forge the From: header, but as long as we email the 
> trac password back to that account we should be fine :-)

Well, if you want to be really picky, then, yes.  Never mind.  :-}

Justin

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