Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030217 21:20]: > All MTAs implement a nobody account which goes to /dev/null. It is Well that's just not true. Any MTA worth its salt _can_ do this, but I wouldn't say they all do out of the box. For instance, debian's exim install includes an alias that sends

Re: spoofing the From: header [SOLVED]

2003-02-24 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:06:15PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Scruloose wrote: > I feel certain it supports it since all of the good modern MTAs support > that and exim is a good one. Easier to try it and see that it works > than to dig into the docs in this case. Good call. It worked. As you

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Scruloose wrote: > Hmm. I'll have to go wading through Exim's docs to find that out... I feel certain it supports it since all of the good modern MTAs support that and exim is a good one. Easier to try it and see that it works than to dig into the docs in this case. > The idea behind this is th

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:56:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Why not use a separate (but not totally bogus) address? Does your MTA > > support address suffixes such as scruloose-debian-user or > > scruloose+debian-user? Hmm.

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:56:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Why not use a separate (but not totally bogus) address? Does your MTA > support address suffixes such as scruloose-debian-user or > scruloose+debian-user? Those are probably the easiest way to hide, and > you don't sacrifice that abi

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Scruloose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030215 14:27]: > I recently found one of my own posts on Google groups... and I really do > *not* like seeing my preferred address splattered all over the web like > that (And yes, I know I knew we were being archived on the web, I > just had sort of a brain-fart ab

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:11:52PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > I recently found one of my own posts on Google groups... and I really do > *not* like seeing my preferred address splattered all over the web like > that (And yes, I know I knew we were being archived on the web, I > just had sort of a br

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:11:52PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > If I post to debian-user with a totally bogus "from" address, will the > listserver filter me out as being "not a subscriber"? No. > Would this screw up the threading or anything? No. > And would people still be able to find my PGP ke