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Old 07-03-2007, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Busarus View Post
whats stopping someone sending the email from an account with mail.mydomain.com as their smtp server?
Two things:

1 - A properly configured mail server won't allow unauthorised users
2 - You control the DNS for the domain, so they can't use the A record
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