[Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list
Grant Taylor
gtaylor at riverviewtech.net
Tue Jan 27 16:25:25 CET 2009
On 01/26/09 20:30, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Sure. Anybody who uses a single host to send mail but alters their
> From according to the venue (me, for example). Anybody whose MTA
> identifies the envelope sender as user at actual-host.example.com, but
> whose MUA identifies them as user at example.com in From. Anybody whose
> mail is handled on somebody else's account, and thus will have a
> Sender header (typically Return-Path will more likely point to Sender
> than From in that case).
I can see how altering your From (depending on where you are sending to)
could be a possibility. Though I think that the MTA sending out as
<user>@<host>.<domain>.<tld> is a mis-configuration on the MTA's part.
As far as the Sender: header, I can see that, thus I refine my statement
such that either the (preferably) From: or the Sender: headers should
match the SMTP envelope sender / Return-Path: header.
> It would be easy to implement in something like SpamAssassin.
*nod*
This may be a very valid point. I wonder what it would take to add a
new rule that would add a small score if things did not match like the
likely should. Every little bit helps and I don't think a little bit
would hurt otherwise valid messages.
Grant. . . .
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