On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, John D. Pritchard wrote:
> why can't someone subscribe to a mailing list, eg, via majordomo, with an
> invalid email address?
The +confirm option of majordomo 1.94 attempts to prevent this, by
sending a key required for confirmation to THE ADDRESS TO BE SUBSCRIBED,
rather than the requester's address, and tells that user, "if you didn't
send the request, ignore this note."
> does sendmail check that the tcpname of the smtp client is on the same
> domain as the tcpname in the subscriber's mailing address? i think not
> just because i see a lot of email spoofing these days.
This would be incorreect behavior for many sites.
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