To:
ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Lars-Johan Liman <liman@autonomica.se>
Date:
31 Mar 2004 23:53:16 +0200
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
User-Agent:
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3
Subject:
[ietf-provreg] PROVREG list reconfiguration.
Folks,
As the despicable spam morons have started to dive into the Received:
headers to filter out recipient addresses, Majordomo's trick of
"re-sending" to an "unknown" address doesn't work any more. I've tried
to figure out a clean way to make sendmail accept messages to a
certain address only if the client is localhost, but I ended up
"improving" sendmail.cf with a local hack - a hobby that I left behind
many years ago. I will try to convince the Sendmail ppl to accept a
patch for future releases.
This new hack should prevent spammers from bypassing Majordomo
processing, by going for the explosion list directly. It has no means,
however, to know wether a sender address is forged, or not, so the
recent Scott Hollenbeck impersonation (sorry to see that, Scott) thing
is still possible, using a name of any list member. I have no cure for
that, though, except for complete manual list moderation - the work
load of which I dread.
If you see any problems (this is untested software), let me know in
a private mail ASAP.
Best regards,
/Liman
Provreg mail host admin.
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