Send Anonymous emails

[freefrag]

Hey I want to make an email application, I was wondering if there is a way to hide or replace the email sender's address like for example if I use smtp server at gmail and send an email from me@gmail.com, it would display you@gmail.com, and so on. Im not really fussed about it being untracable, or containing my ip since I just want to see how and if such thing could be done in Visual basic. I was looking for things like that on the net but I didnt find anything

[dglienna]

You can specify a FROM address, but that doesn't hide anything in the email header. Just the message itself.

[freefrag]

Ive tried that, I sent the messesage via Gmail smtp, and specified a from to be anonymous@anonymous.com, it didnt work tho

[TheCPUWizard]

Please re-read the Acceptable USe Policy for CodeGuru. Topics which are likely to facilitate "bad behaviour" (and SPAM or FRAUD definately apply) are NOT allowed here on CG.

[S_M_A]

I bump Wizard's post. I'm so darn tired of deleting those spam mails regarding viagra, penis enlargment surgey, cheap software and god knows what... What morons do really respond to those?

[freefrag]

well I dont think I would want to send viagra messesages with my ip contained in the email, Im doing that solely for my learning purposes and fraud or spam is not what I had in mind, however I can understand that you dont trust me, so nvm. thaks for the help.

[TheCPUWizard]

well I dont think I would want to send viagra messesages with my ip contained in the email, Im doing that solely for my learning purposes and fraud or spam is not what I had in mind, however I can understand that you dont trust me, so nvm. thaks for the help.

It has NOTHING to do with "trusting you"...It has to do with how the information could be used by the thousands of others who read the information for years and years to come.

[dglienna]

Microsoft locked things down (tightly) with SP2. While the methods have continued to improve (to generate spam) at least it isn't as easy as it was just a while back.

User would open your email message. It'd load your activex or macro, and blast the same message to everyone in YOUR addressbook.

Now, even ISP's don't allow relaying anymore. Wonder why?

If your PC tried to send out 70 MILLION emails, one night, would you mind?

Now, there's a 5 second delay between EACH one that you don't send yourself.

[HairyMonkeyMan]

Now, even ISP's don't allow relaying anymore. Wonder why?

It is still possible, but if your server has an open relay it will be added to blacklists faster than you can say lickety split.

[dglienna]

I can't send email from my CABLE account, if I'm on a DSL line. DSL requires authentication methods, which fail. I have a different account for anytime that sendmail doesn't work.

If I can authenticate (same ISP), it works fine.

[HairyMonkeyMan]

I guess it depends which version of SMTP the ISP is running, and what security measures they have in place.