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From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>
Subject: Re: Authentication warning on sender ... yuck
Date: 10 Feb 2000 10:27:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxkd7q56psu.fsf@beaver.jprc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Doug Bagley's message of "10 Feb 2000 09:16:24 -0600"

One is stuck with either
[a] sendmail sets MAIL FROM:<> to yourname@your.actual.host.name, when
    f-is-evil is t, which can be seriously suboptimal, or
[b] MAIL FROM:<> gets set to what you like, but the foolish auth
    warning gets included in the headers, when f-is-evil is nil.

The right solution would be to get both positive effects, setting the
envelope without creating the warning.  As a "favor" to enhance
"security," the warning is a bad joke.

Since I'm the only user of my machines, tweaking the T lines of
sendmail.cf is an acceptable workaround.  But it's still Wrong to do
so, philosophically.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-02-10 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-10  1:17 Harry Putnam
2000-02-10  3:42 ` Doug Bagley
2000-02-10  8:08 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-10  8:18   ` Hrvoje Niksic
2000-02-10 15:02     ` Kai Großjohann
2000-02-10 15:16       ` Doug Bagley
2000-02-10 15:27         ` Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
2000-02-10 16:17           ` David S. Goldberg
2000-02-10 17:14             ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-02-11  8:21           ` Amos Gouaux
2000-02-11 13:06         ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-02-11 16:39           ` Amos Gouaux
2000-02-10 20:12       ` Russ Allbery

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