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by obvioustroll 5846 days ago
Heh. Back when alternate email protocols were still common, it was my job to help support the "smtp gateway" product for a large corporation. I got to the point where I could forge emails by typing in SMTP by hand.

This worked very well the day I played a prank on my boss - the boss had sent out an email forged to appear it came from a co-worker that was supposed to be funny but hurt the co-worker's feelings badly. Co-worker wanted revenge, so I created a "letter of resignation" that appeared to come from the boss and that appeared to have been sent to every member of our company - but was really only sent to the boss himself.

Co-worker later told me he saw the boss running from office to office trying to do "damage control" before he realized no one else had actually gotten the email.