[Tutor] Mail? What's that?

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Justin Cardinal wrote:
> Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
> 
>>Are From: To: Date: and Subject: mandatory in the contents of the
>>email(text)?  Do I have to put "real" address in  From when calling
>>sendmail()? And in the contents?
> 
> Here's the page I used to learn on this subject.
> http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/article.php?story=20040822174141155
>  
> I'm definitely not a pro in this area, so what comes next are merely
> assumptions made after toying around a bit.
> I don't believe the From, To, Date, Subject are required, but if you
> play around sending some test messages to yourself, you'll see that
> excluding them makes the message look very suspicious. As far as using
> your real address, that might depend on your email server...but yes, you
> can most likely spoof other addresses. Please use this for good, not evil.
>  
> -Justin Cardinal

Thanks Justin.