In this project, you will explore how to spoof and email using the commandline in Windows. Essentially, you will be manually issuing commands that your email program normally issues behind$-$the$-$scenes when you send an email. To complete this project, you will need to connect to the mail server. Ask your instructor for the name of the mail server you should use. In this example you will send the spoofed message to your own email address; keep in mind that you should never send a spoof email to anyone but yourself.

$1.$ To open a command prompt window, click start, click run, type cmd and then press enter.

$2.$ Recall that port $25$ is the well$-$known port used to send SMTP messages. Connect to port $25$ on the mail server by typing the following command

telnet localhost $25$

$3.$ A welcome message should appear. This will vary depending on the server. next introduce yourself to the mail server

HELO mail$\_$server

$4.$ To make it appear to the recipient that the email is coming from the indicated address, type the following command, using the email address that is shown.

MAIL FROM:penguin@southpole.com

$5.$ To address the email to yourself, type the following commands

RCPT TO: your$\_$email$\_$address

$6.$ To forge themessage header, type the following

data

from:penguin@southpole.com

Date:Sat, $10$ Dec $18638$:$15$:$11-0500$

Subject: Greetings from down below!

$7.$ Press enter and the type the following

It's cold down here!

$8.$ To create a blank line press enter.

press enter

$9.$ to exit type quit

$10.$ check your email