Just received an email from myself

Relentless81 said:
I've honestly never heard of spoofing an address before, and to think I work in IT, never employ me.
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I managed to do it once back in 1998 using Netscape Communicator (their email client). What you did was set up your POP3 account on it as normal, your own user name and your password but type in your buddy's email address where it asks you what your email address is. Send a practical joke email like this and people will think that it came from your buddy. Then if you want to check your own email, just change your addy back to yours. I only ever did it that 1 time, so it's probably obsolete 14 years on. Anti-spoof in place etc.

Regarding the OP, our family all received a load of spam from my sister, she having not knowingly sent it. Probably clicked on a dodgy link and email addy then got harvested.
 
LordSplodge said:
See Hatter the Mad's post above. You don't need Exchange or anything like that.
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I didn't say you needed it, just that it was pretty easy using it.

Function SendMail(ByVal FromName As String, ByVal FromAddress As String, ByVal ToAddress As String, ByVal Subject As String, ByVal Body As String)
Dim message As New MailMessage
With message
.From = New MailAddress(FromAddress, FromName)
.To.Add(New MailAddress(ToAddress))
.Subject = Subject
.Body = Body
End With
Dim client As New SmtpClient("exchange-server-name", "port number")
client.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("login", "password")
client.EnableSsl = True
message.Dispose()
Return True
End Function
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That's the code I use, never had a mail rejected or get caught by a spam filter using it either.
 
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