[Mailman-Users] Mailman :: Authenticate Headers

Jeff Barger jeff at look.net
Fri Jul 9 21:00:33 CEST 2004


On Jul 9, 2004, at 2:51 PM, José Pablo Orozco Marín wrote:

> ok. forget the perl script. This is my problem:
>
> I can send e-mails to list at mydomain.com from my account 
> admin_list at mydomain.com... What I want to prevent is somebody makes an 
> script to send e-mails changing the headers. Something like this:
> <?php
>        $headers=  "From: admin<admin_list at mydomain.com>";
>        mail ("list at mydomain.com", "subject", "body", $headers);
> ?>
>
> I want to know if mailman prevent that, using some password or 
> something like that.

That would be 'spoofing'. See the two links I sent previously.


-Jeff




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