[ John Relph writes: ]
> On Apr 23, 22:31, Dave Wolfe wrote:
> >I can't tell if your changes even do the same thing, but it appears that
> >they attempt to deal w/ unqualified addresses (no domain). Don't know
> >about stock 1.94.5, but other patches disallow unqualified addresses.
> >Your best bet is to fix your MTA so that you never get unqualified
> >addresses. It prevents a lot of other problems that way.
>
> Actually, I am comparing the addresses to "majordomo@where.am.i". To
> make sure that neither of the addresses is the address of majordomo.
> I think. You know, it's been so long since I hacked this that I don't
> even remember what it was I was trying to do. But I do know that this
> change fixed some problems I was having. (I hope it wasn't the unQ'ed
> address problem.) I guess I'll have to look at it once more. (I wish
> I had emacs on my majordomo machine.) You may be right about the
> unQ'ed address hack, though.
[...]
> if ($addr1[0] eq $addr2[0]) {
> if ($#addr1 == 0 && $#addr2 == 1 && $addr2[1] eq $main'whereami) { #'
> return(1);
> }
> if ($#addr2 == 0 && $#addr1 == 1 && $addr1[1] eq $main'whereami) { #'
> return(1);
> }
> }
Nope, $whereami is the local FQDN, $whoami is Majordomo@$whereami.
Annotated:
# if user names are the same...
if ($addr1[0] eq $addr2[0]) {
# if addr1 has no domain and addr2 does and addr2's domain is my
# domain, then return true.
if ($#addr1 == 0 && $#addr2 == 1 && $addr2[1] eq $main'whereami) { #'
return(1);
}
# if addr2 has no domain and addr1 does and addr1's domain is my
# domain, then return true.
if ($#addr2 == 0 && $#addr1 == 1 && $addr1[1] eq $main'whereami) { #'
return(1);
}
}
In other words, you expect to receive unqualified local addresses and
want to detect them. Unfortunately, unqualified remote addresses that
match local users will be matched too.
Understand that I have no intention of telling you what you can or
can't do w/ your Mj installation. If it works for you, it's served its
purpose. But I think the real problem is w/ the MTA configuration and
that makes the changes unsuitable for general use. Same story for the
LookOut!...er, OutLook users; those folks definitely need a lot of help,
probably more than a help file or instructions in a mail message can
offer. You might want to look into Majordomo2 instead, which simplifies
the authentication exchange somewhat.
--
Dave Wolfe
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