[KLUG Members] email question

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I use evolution. I got an email from someone and the from field read:
> First Last <decoy at hisdomain.ext> 
> This seemed a bit wierd to me as that must not really be his email
> address. I change the view to email source and sure enough that is what
> the plain test header showed for the from and reply to fields.
> I clicked reply and fired one off. He got it and replied back.

Is there a Reply-To: header?  Also make sure there aren't multiple
From: / To: headers.

> It is a government site, what could his agency be doing to route the
> email? I suspect all the users have the same decoy@ email and that it is
> meant to prevent spam.

They might think so,  it won't help - if you can reply so can the
SPAMers.  Address hiding is just silly, and in the end counter
productive;  it creates a communication medium which can't be used for
communication.  Anyway,  you can find my e-mail address in a jizillion
places, and yet I get almost no SPAM whatsoever;  SPAM is a solved
problem through simple mechanisms on the the server.

> It seems like a great idea.
  
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