If you had an account in GMail you might have already known that there is a way to
forward all the incoming messages automatically. But is this really a feature or a problem.

Let me explain how it is a problem. Suppose
A and
B are two persons who are having
a@ gmail.com and
b@ gmail.com. Now this
A, wants to give some trouble to this B. He can do it as follows:
- He will first create another email account c@ gmail.com.
- Using this email ID he will then subscribe to a lot of high traffic groups/forums, eg. lkml.
- He will then auto forward all these emails to B's email b@ gmail.com.
This is completely possible because gmail does not ask for any conformation from the receiver when the sender asks to forward. So, in our case
B will suddenly receive a lot of emails all of a sudden. And most of them are not necessary for him. He cannot block all the messages saying that it is a spam or so... Because it is really not a spam. More over
B cannot do anything to stop this new flood of incoming messages.
We may have some kind of fix for this problem....
First
B has to click on the "more options", then he will be provided with some more options as follows, there he should select "show original" option.

Clicking on this option,
B can view complete information, as it is, when the email server received. Here
B should now search for his email-id
b@ gmail.com. Beside that email-id he would find another email-id
c@ gmail.com from which he is actually receiving the mail from. So, the solution is he should just create a filter which moves all the messages received from this email-id directly into trash. Not very good technique, but certainly it is not a bad procedure.
OK, with gmail we can see the original message and do something to reduce the intensity of the problem. What if
B is having his email account in some other email service, which does not show the original message.