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Subject: Re: Totally-Private Who (fwd)
From: sameer <sameer @ c2 . org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 14:50:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: tjsold @ mtu . edu (Theodore Soldan)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9406221803.AA01716@ctsee13.cts.mtu.edu> from "Theodore Soldan" at Jun 22, 94 02:03:19 pm
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> circumstances) a private majordomo list:
> 
> telnet your.mail.host 25
> helo
> expn your.private.list
> quit
> 
> So if it is very important to you that the members of a list NOT be known
> to the world, you should take the above into consideration.
> 

	It's not very tough to avoid this..  You can just instead of
using an :include: to include the subscriber list write a very small
script which just runs sendmail on a subscriber list which only daemon
can read (and wrap the script using wrapper)


> Versions 8 and later of sendmail do allow you some leeway in allowing the
> world to execute the expn command, but whether it works at your site or
> not depends on how sendmail was installed.
> 
> Hope this helps.  Ted Soldan - Michigan Tech University 
> 


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