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Subject: Re: Hiding Outgoing List Name On Resend
From: Rik Harris <Rik . Harris @ fulcrum . com . au>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 12:28:56 +1000
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
Newsgroups: fulcrum.lists.majordomo-users
References: <v02110100abcd2321a2e4@[128.155.10.27]> <799538103.3038@nntphost.fulcrum.com.au>
Reply-to: rik . harris @ fulcrum . com . au

In fulcrum.lists.majordomo-users David Wolfe writes:

>[ Eric L. Everton writes: ]
>> 
>> About nine months ago, when I first started using Majordomo, I quickly
>> realized moderated lists were easily circumvented (users could mail
>> directly to the outgoing list name) unless the list administrator took
>> some rather cumbersome steps to prevent users from easily doing this.
>> 
>> I figured the easiest way to fix the problem was to hide the outgoing
>> list name in the list's configuration file thereby making it invisible
>> to 'expn' commands on the SMTP port.

>No, the easiest way is to specify the command line arguments to resend
>via an "@file" argument, where the specified file contains all the
>resend arguments, including the outgoing list name. The only hole in
>this method, providing one has proper directory/file permissions in
>place, is the ps(1) output that can show the outgoing list alias on the
>sendmail exec'ed by resend.

And the Received lines for sendmail v8?

Received: from miles.greatcircle.com by relay2.UU.NET with ESMTP 
        id QQyodh10753; Wed, 3 May 1995 11:16:40 -0400
Received: (daemon@localhost) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.6.9/Miles-950430-1) id HAA28057 for majordomo-users-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 07:53:08 -0700
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Received: from netcom7.netcom.com (netcom7.netcom.com [192.100.81.115]) by miles.greatcircle.com (8.6.9/Miles-950430-1) with ESMTP id HAA28052 for <majordomo-users@greatcircle.com>; Wed, 3 May 1995 07:53:06 -0700

rik.
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