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Is not that god damn hard. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Basically we had to send the low level commands of an email for it to go through. After doing this I realized something weird. The email gets to say who it is from.

I remember realizing this and thinking it was weird too when I was reading about SMTP. Specifically, the MAIL FROM command.

Also related.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Spoofing email is hilariously easy. GPG signing really needs to be made easier