On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, George Lindholm wrote:
> Brock Rozen wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 at 12:11, Oliver Xymoron wrote about "Re: More issues,...":
> >
> > > > I thought sendmail's expanding owner- addresses *was* the reason for the
> > > > comma.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what the problem you're pointing to is. Is it that people can
> > > do an EXPN remotely?
> >
> > I think that's exactly what's being discussed here. And I know this goes
> > back to mj 1.9x and the security issue with the -outgoing aliases and not
> > wanting people to see them, or whatever.
> >
> > The trailing comma was supposed to help out, but it never did for me
> > then.
>
> As I remember it, the comma supresses the -outgoing alias from the
> message headers making it "impossible" for someone outside to
> email the list by bypassing the list alias and going straight to the
> outgoing alias instead since they can't see what the alias is.
Non-issue with MJ2 - there is no outgoing alias.
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