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Ron Goulard foz at techville.org
Fri May 7 23:22:58 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 19:10, Nina Pham wrote:

> got it, I have to pay for it to register my domain. I just wonder why I 
> can use it to send to my yahoo account (yahoo account can not send back 
> to my barracuda.gibbons.com though).

Some (most? many?) mailservers out there will accept mail from anywhere,
claiming to be whoever (as in they don't check the validity of the
supposed sending domain).  This seems to be the case with the yahoo mail
system.

In the past, this was not considered a problem at all but as
spamming/open-relaying of mail on the Internet grows, it's becoming more
and more of a problem.

Ron





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