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Subject: Re: MAJORDOMO ABORT (fwd)
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Date: 23 May 1996 10:16:53 -0500
To: David Gibbs <david @ midrange . com>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: David Gibbs's message of Thu, 23 May 1996 05:50:56 -0500 (CDT)
References: <199605231050.FAA02250@midrange.com>

>>>>> "DG" == David Gibbs <david@midrange.com> writes:

DG> Hmmm...  Does anyone know what kind of address the following is?

>> HOSTILE ADDRESS "Bystrov, Vladimir" </dd.id=Byst@tco.infonet.com> no /c=

Majordomo complains about addresses that start with the character `/' among
other things because these are common ways to exploit security holes in
some versions of Sendmail.  Think of something like, say,
"/etc/passwd@site"; if Sendmail decides to mail to that file, you have
problems.  (This is very much simplified and not at all how it's actually
done.)

Some versions of majordomo (you don't say what version you're using, so
it's hard to say) try to check the syntax of at least X.400 addresses; the
complaint about "no /c=" results from that.  I have no idea just what kind
of address this is, though.
-- 
      Jason L. Tibbitts III - tibbs@uh.edu - 713/743-8684 - 221SR1
System Manager:  University of Houston High Performance Computing Center
                1994 PC800 "Kuroneko"      DoD# 1723


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