Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!ericom!eua.ericsson.se!erix.ericsson.se!per From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: User setting From: address in sendmail input Message-ID: <1991Jun29.171102.1484@eua.ericsson.se> Date: 29 Jun 91 17:11:02 GMT References: <1991Jun20.022606.1680@shaman.com> Sender: news@eua.ericsson.se Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: super.eua.ericsson.se In article barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: >It is true the SunOS sendmail has this bug (allowing anyone to be >trusted). We use this bug to work aroung another bug when sending >mail inside GNU emacs. Well, SunOS sendmail does have the bug that anyone is "trusted", but only if you use the OR option - and I wouldn't say it's the most serious bug that OR brings along, the one with mail inside GNU emacs is another of them... But anyway, that's not relevant to allowing users to set the From: address, which I believe most sendmails do (I'm sure Neil Rickert has pointed this out already:-), "trusted" users are those who are allowed to set the *envelope* sender, i.e. what is seen at the recipient end as From_ or Return-Path:. --Per Hedeland per@erix.ericsson.se or per%erix.ericsson.se@sunic.sunet.se or ...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per