6. Client e-mail user Receiver contacts mail.receivingemail.com (again, local
DNS is used), makes a request to the POP3 port (110), and asks to
retrieve its e-mail.The e-mail is delivered to the e-mail client, and
Receiver happily reads the e-mail.
Anonymous E-Mail
Technology sector experts well know that SMTP was not designed with security
in mind. E-mail is trivial to forge, and in more than one way, forged e-mail can
be passed with ease to the mail transport agent (SMTP server). As we already are
aware, spammers forge e-mails, and since phishers are classified as spammers, they
take on this practice as well. Most spammers tend to forge e-mails for ...