Spoof an Email in Python

Asked Apr 27 '17 at 21:15

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The title pretty much describes the question.

Currently, I am using SMTPlib in python 3.6 and my code, shown below, sends an email with the name changed, but the real sending email address is till there. How would I remove that?

import smtplib

to = 'toemail@hotmail.co.uk'
gmail_user = 'fromemail@gmail.com'
gmail_pwd = 'pass'
smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo
smtpserver.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
header = 'To:' + to + '\n' + 'From: ' + "Hello World! <test@spam.com>" + '\n' + 'Subject: Test\n'
print(header)
msg = header + '\nSending a test message!\n\n'
smtpserver.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg)
print('done!')
smtpserver.close()

Oh, and if there are any better libraries for sending spoof emails, then please tell me.

Thanks in advance.

asked Apr 27 '17 at 21:15

Antobat

Belongs to https://security.stackexchange.com/ – Pedro Lobito Apr 27 '17 at 21:19
@PedroLobito Personally I would say it's more coding related. – Antobat Apr 27 '17 at 21:21
Spoof an email is definitely security related. – Pedro Lobito Apr 27 '17 at 21:22
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"How do I use this library" would definitely not be accepted on security.SE, regardless of whether you're trying to do a vaguely security-related thing with that library. – user2357112 Apr 27 '17 at 21:23
@PedroLobito I completely agree, but I doubt it would be as useful or informative as this one – Antobat Apr 27 '17 at 21:24
Which one is the "real sending email address" and which is the one you want to appear? – jwodder Apr 27 '17 at 21:31
@jwodder the real email is fromemail@gmail.com and the fake one is Hello World! – Antobat Apr 27 '17 at 21:34
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@Antobat: Then it's likely Gmail is rewriting the message headers to prevent spoofing. You'll need to use a less security-minded mail server. – jwodder Apr 27 '17 at 21:35

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