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Article #5457Re: Smail 3.X
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 18:00
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 18:00
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Lest anyone be scared away from Smail 3 because of Peter da Silva's bug reports, know that the problem he describes is a configuration error, and not a program bug. Smail 3, in an effort to make forgeries more difficult, only trusts specific users to give a From_ line that lies (i.e. refers to someone other than the sender). Typically this list of trusted users is specified thus: trusted = "root:uucp" If, for example, user "uucp" is not trusted, then Smail 3 will do what Peter has described: it will ignore the From_ line in mail arriving via UUCP. This is all just a matter of not Reading the Fine Manual. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Smail 3.X Keywords: smail Message-ID: <25926BDA.10093@ateng.com> Date: 22 Dec 89 18:00:57 GMT References: <18806@cfctech.UUCP> <104@mosh.UUCP> <7341@ficc.uu.net> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 18