[Mailman-Users] How hard is it to spoof an email?

[Jp Possenti]

I have a couple of questions regarding that FAQ link:

1. Setting the max_num_recipients to 1 will mean that any time I make a
newsletter to the public, I need to login and approve that request, correct?

I am just confused about the wording of the command. Does that mean that the
message will go through but just to 1 person in the list and the other say
499 people will not receive it?

I apologize for the ignorance.

2.  For setting everyone's moderation bit on, I can figure that out as it's
an option under General -> Additional settings. But for the second part
regarding posting using an approved:header I don't see that option anywhere.
How would this work?


Kind regards,
 
Jp


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro at value.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 2:18 PM
To: jp at pifiu.com; mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] How hard is it to spoof an email?

Jp Possenti wrote:

>How hard would it be for someone to maliciously start sending all the users
>in my list emails or start deleting people from it by sending bounce errors
>or by spoofing the admin email and start emailing everyone on the list?


It all depends on how your list is set up.


>Is this a common problem, or is mailman secure about it? What are some ways
>to help avoid any problems?


Go to the FAQ wizard
>Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
and search for spoof.

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