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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning mess
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Jeff Bailey |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender |
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Sat, 24 Feb 2001 18:02:41 -0800 |
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:43:22AM +0100, Loic Dachary wrote:
> Jeff Bailey writes:
> > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:02:23AM +0100, Loic Dachary wrote:
> >
> > > Less complicated would be to set the From: of the outgoing mail with
> > > the real mail adress of the user as extracted from either the
> > > sourceforge database or the /etc/aliases file. What I don't know is if
> > > fencepost will accept forged From: from subversions. Is it possible to
> > > configure exim on fencepost to accept forged From: but only when they
> > > come from subversions ? Is it acceptable from a security point of view ?
> >
> > If you're going to do that, why not send messages directly out from
> > subversions?
>
> The problem happens when subversions sends a mail to a mailman list
> from a user that is known to subversions but not to fencepost. Please
> forgive my ignorance on the subject, I have no clue about what's really
> happening on the fencepost side. All I know is that the mail sent from
> subversions is From: address@hidden and that whenever user is not
> known by fencepost the mail gets rejected.
I haven't been following this problem lately. It used to be (under
subversions) that it sent the message out as address@hidden, which was not
a legit userid. If emails are failing when coming out as
address@hidden, I suspect that you have a different problem.
--
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- [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Loic Dachary, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Jeff Bailey, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Loic Dachary, 2001/02/24
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender,
Jeff Bailey <=
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- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Guillaume Morin, 2001/02/27
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Loic Dachary, 2001/02/28
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Loic Dachary, 2001/02/28
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Mark H. Weaver, 2001/02/28
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Loic Dachary, 2001/02/28
[Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender, Guillaume Morin, 2001/02/27