Email Masking?

[Furr]

Ok i have been asked to do this

Essentially we need to play with the exchange server and try to send an email from an exchange account pretending that the email is actually from another account (not just account but different domain). For example I want to be able to send an email from my company.com account that appears to come from my hotmail.com account.

Ideas???

 

[~YuckFou~]

Your company are spammers and I hate them.

 

[Furr]

No we are not!!

Its sumin to do with one of the top brass's missus wanting to use our email system

 

[(Shovel)]

Erm, you've not mentioned which email client you're using, but I'm assuming Outlook with Exchange.

Erm, in the Outlook accounts properties you can enter what the email address is. Then just enter the "real" username and password for your account and it will send as if from that email address. Just be aware that you can be traced by checking the message headers.

Is that all you needed?

 

[kameleon]

Don't encourage spamm0rs shovel. Bigwigs missus or not

 

[Furr]

We use Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, and Windows 2000 in its Various flavours.

Most people at the office use out our own server to send emails, bascially its our very own ISP, FTP etc... Not that i use it

I guess they want it so that the missus can use the brass's laptop at home to send emails without having to signup to a ISP etc... BUT

they also want it so that it appears that her emails aren't being sent from the company itself.

 

[Jonty]

Hi

Not very helpful, I know, but I doubt you can do what you are proposing. Even if you could, the potential for abuse of such a system would mean I'm fairly confident you would be breaking the law, if not criminally then certainly civilly.

Sorry

 

[Testin da Cable]

well, you can do it. but I have no idea how to with w32 products. it's not helping, I know. get proper servers

 

[Furr]

its not my company

 

[lecter]

What you are essentially asking is whether you can turn exchange into an open relay. The amusing thing is that microsoft is so lame at security it does this by default. Oh and its pure evil

 

[Mellow-]

The boss' missus can use remote dial up to access the internal e-mail account.

 

[Mr. 47]

why not yust get a hotmail account???

 

[Furr]

I dont know! Stop victimising me. I hate you all. I hate my job. I hate my boss's missus and my boss. I hate mosquitos and mushrooms


*runs off crying*

 

[Mellow-]

If you work for the IT department I would find that highly amusing. You're supposed to know this sort of thing!

 

[Furr]

Alright back to this. Basically. we want a miss X to send an email that pretends to be from us

So. She send an email. ie X@hotmail.com which arrives with us. We tell exchange to forward the email so that it gets forwarded as X@Company.com. When the recipent replies to X@company.com it arrives back with us which then forwards it back on to X@hotmail.com

Can it be done? and if so how


Simplified

X@hotmail.com-->Our Server(forward)--X@company.com--Recipent

Recipent replies to X@company.com---arives with us-->we foward it on to---X@hotmail.com

 

[Mellow-]

Tell her to get her lazy arse in the office and sit at a desk.

 

[GypsyCurse]

exchange already has this functionality, sort of... but using Hotmail is going to make it near damn impossible. Look at the problem in two chunks...

Get an external email a/c from someone like NetIdentity - She really needs a decent POP account with high availablity - of which NI are one of the best.

The netidentity address can send 'as' anyone if she insists on using the webmail... but I'd instead suggest the following for the outbound route:

- to send email all you need is an open SMTP relay - if your exchange box has been clamped down in this respect just install suse and sendmail on a P120... job done and now your company has a dedicated SMTP mail relay for any other (legitimate) purposes. make sure her outlook is configured to send with her @company.com reply address via this server...

for the return path from your domain to her, just add a custom recipient on the exchange server (via exchange admin) - the mail will come in and be re-routed immediately... just remember you don't want an exchange account for the custom recipient as this will pool the mail on your machine rather than passing it on.

Don't forget, with hotmail she will be spammed to hell - and if she turns that spam filter on chances are she'll lose mails she wanted - a support nightmare... avoid at all costs!

 

[Testin da Cable]

I don't understand this problem anymore

you're making it way too hard on yourself. just give the damn woman an account at your workies and set up some (secure ffs) webmail shite that can be accessed by brass' lappys. problem solved.

 

[GypsyCurse]

TdC? are you the chap who played NwN with us on Xav's server?

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by GypsyCurse

- to send email all you need is an open SMTP relay

whooo. bliss

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by GypsyCurse
TdC? are you the chap who played NwN with us on Xav's server?

aye matey, that's me

 

[GypsyCurse]

erk, you replied before the thread reloaded.....

I'm scared

 

[Testin da Cable]

I used to be a jedi master class spammer

 

[GypsyCurse]

with 15 posts a day the spam is still strong in you, young one.

 

[Testin da Cable]

heheh and I've been slacking off lately too!

 

[EnricoPolatso]

Back to the question...

I can't really understand what it is you want to do....

You want the email to appear to be from company.com but you dont want to give this person an @company.com account? You want someone to be able to send email from hotmail, but have it forwarded through your own Exchange server just so it can be rewritten with an @company.com address?

If I've understood this correctly then it doesn't make much sense.... If you want the email to be from your company then why not just create her an account? She can then sign up with any old ISP and send email with the "From" set to her @company.com address, and then log into her @company.com account to collect her mail??

What does any other user do when they are out of the office and want to check their email?

 

[Furr]

They dont want her to have any access with the office systems

 

[Testin da Cable]

imo your boss is a cheep0x cunt. he should get his missus a proper net connection. go and tell him...from me

 

[(Shovel)]

Re: Back to the question...

Originally posted by Booth
If I've understood this correctly then it doesn't make much sense.... If you want the email to be from your company then why not just create her an account? She can then sign up with any old ISP and send email with the "From" set to her @company.com address

Essentially what I was trying to say. Though as has been pointed out, you wont be able to change the "From" address in Hotmail, you'd have to use something else.

On top of the above though, rather than needing to log in to Company.com to get the email, you can just auto forward it back to BigBoss's wife at her "real" address.

It doesn't sound overly complicated from what've explained.

 

[darthshearer]

Try this http://www.manicmail.net/