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Re: NetScape & Forged Mail

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From: Alan Mcfarling
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00
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Try placing the info you want as return address and make the netscape.ini file
read only.

If that does not work then have the file reside on your server and have netscape
refer to it there.

Hope this works

Alan McFarling
Computer Lab. Tech. II
Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute
Community College
Albuquerque, NM
(505) 224-3580
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Our school is making an effort to provide information and services to our
students over the web. As part of this effort, we've set-up web stations for
our students to use on a casual, drop-in basis. These web stations are
always running Netscape Navigator and the students don't have to login to
use them.'

We've discovered two different people in the last week using these computers
to forge mail to different departments on campus. We caught one of them in
the act. The other one is still at-large.

Does anyone know how lock the mail preferences or to remove the ability of
Navigator to forge mail? If I could, I would remove the mail facility
completely rather than give our users the (shamefully easy) ability to forge
mail. But, I can't even figure out how to do this.

Does anyone else have this problem? It seems like a very big problem with
Netscape and the POP protocol in general.

Kirk Breault
Technical Support Manager
UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
kirk@haas.berkeley.edu
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Date: 1996/08/19
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