Yahoo ID Not Exists

[Shalini Bhalla]

some time i receive a mail which is promoting some kind of product , and id is same name as my id , or if with any other name and if i try to send reply to that mail failure notice comes tha yhoo id is not there

why so ? and how is it possible ?

[numberwhun]

some time i receive a mail which is promoting some kind of product , and id is same name as my id , or if with any other name and if i try to send reply to that mail failure notice comes tha yhoo id is not there

why so ? and how is it possible ?

In the Unix world, I can send an email to you from the command line, using something like mailx or even sendmail, and make it look like it is coming from santa@thenorthp ole.com if I wish. This is not that hard or trivial to do. Its called SPAM!

[RedSon]

In the Unix world, I can send an email to you from the command line, using something like mailx or even sendmail, and make it look like it is coming from santa@thenorthp ole.com if I wish. This is not that hard or trivial to do. Its called SPAM!

If this response was a little cryptic, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp.