[Mailman-Users] Maybe this is a FAQ, I'm not sure

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 7 May 2001 11:35:32 +0200 
Marco van Tol <marco at tols.org> wrote:

> Hi, In the past I have tried to run a maillist using MajorDomo,
> but couldn't get it to prevent external people from mailing to
> lists by telnetting to port 25 of the mail server claiming to be
> anybody that is inside the list.  

Given the current state of deployed technology, there is no proper
handling for this except hand moderatorating the list.  SMTP/TLS is
a potenial long term address, but its current use is small and
there's no guarantee that they chain of authentication extends back
to the original sender.

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