[Asrg] where the message originated

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 11 January 2009 15:57:07 -0600 Gordon Peterson <gep2 at terabites.com> 
wrote:

>  > > For example, I might be travelling somewhere and sending e-mail
> messages
>  > > from an inhabitual location:  a cruise ship Internet cafe, an
> Internet
>  > > access kiosk above a post office location in Beijing, a coffee bar,
> or
>  > > other such public-access location.  In such a situation, I will
>  > > typically have NO control over what outgoing mail server is sending
> my
>  > > e-mail message, and since my being there is temporary I obviously
> don't
>  > > want to put a return address on my mail that would be connected with
> the
>  > > location where I physically am at the time.
>
>  > That's a hopeless setting. If you carry a laptop, SMTP+AUTH to the
> company server is the way to go, as Franck said already.
>
> That's precisely the point.  I am not using my habitual mail client, nor
> am I using my own familiar webmail service.  I am using a mail kiosk-type
> service which allows me to enter a subject, my return address, a to
> address, and the body of my mail.

So, what's to stop me using your email address as the return address in 
that kiosk? That sort of service should not be used, except with very low 
expectation of delivery. The recipient should not trust the content of the 
email.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
x3148