Re: User setting From: address in sendmail input

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From: Per Hedeland
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 17:11

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In article <BARNETT.91Jun21093917@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:
>It is true the SunOS sendmail has this bug (allowing anyone to be
>trusted). We use this bug to work aroung another bug when sending 
>mail inside GNU emacs.

Well, SunOS sendmail does have the bug that anyone is "trusted", but
only if you use the OR option - and I wouldn't say it's the most serious
bug that OR brings along, the one with mail inside GNU emacs is another
of them...

But anyway, that's not relevant to allowing users to set the From:
address, which I believe most sendmails do (I'm sure Neil Rickert has
pointed this out already:-), "trusted" users are those who are allowed
to set the *envelope* sender, i.e. what is seen at the recipient end as
From_ or Return-Path:.

--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se  or
per%erix.ericsson.se@sunic.sunet.se  or
...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per

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