Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:25:10 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Postfix and Majordomo security (was FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:INSERT_NUMBER_HERE) Message-ID: <200102120225.f1C2PAU43817@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010211204300.64780N-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Regarding spam, the thought just occurred to me that we can catch a lot > > of it by checking that the list name appears in a To: or CC: line > > somewhere. eg: If mail to -current does not have > > '.*current@freebsd.org' in the To: or CC: line (most spam has got > > fakeuser@hotmail.com or something), then bounce it. > > Hmm. I kind of liked being able to Bcc: lists, especially given that > (last I checked) we had some magic somewhere to bound cross-posts. Naturally. But I personally would rather being able to catch nearly all of the remainder of the spam. :-) The inconvenience of not being able to Bcc: would be (IMHO) a small price to pay. Besides: this would make life a little easier for the procmail folks if we could guarantee the headers were going to be there in To:/Cc:. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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