At 11:04 AM 3/7/96, bollow@math.ethz.ch wrote:
>d) Majordomo sees the From: header and interprets the subscription request
> as follows:
>
>subscribe churchplanters MX mailing list processor
><MXserver@BIBLE.ACU.EDU> (by way of drobayo@posh.internext.com (Daniel D.
>Robayo))
>
> As the maillog indicates, the envelope-From of this request was
> <drobayo@posh.internext.com>. Unfortunately, the address
> drobayo@posh.internext.com was included in a comment to the subscribed
> address, and for this reason Majordomo accepted the request. I consider
> this behavior to be a bug of Majordomo, because RFC 822 specifies:
>
> RFC822> Comments should be retained while the message is subject to
> RFC822> interpretation according to this standard. However, comments
> RFC822> must NOT be included in other cases, such as during protocol
> RFC822> exchanges with mail servers.
>
> This means (by my interpretation) that Majordomo is REQUIRED by the
> standard to strip comments from the address before checking whether
> it matches with the envelope-From. For my list, the subscription mode
> is set to "open", hence subscription requests are automatically
> honoured if the subscribed address "matches" the envelope-From.
a) You're complaining to the wrong mailing list. Issues specific to a
particular package should be addressed to that package's dedicated mailing
list; in this case, that would be majordomo-users@greatcircle.com.
b) Majordomo _does_ strip out the comments before comparing addresses. I
don't know what the problem is, but that's not it.
c) Just what do you expect Majordomo to _do_ to prevent this situation?
-Brent
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