Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:15:18 -0500 From: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> To: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Netscape mail again Message-ID: <3AAE4795.BE8ABFA5@optonline.net> References: <3AAE4427.53BCFDB3@siteplus.com>
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I think I know what you mean. Sometimes I see in the headers, (loginname@optonline.net), when I actually stated in ns mail for my identity to be trini0@optonline.net. Whats up with that?? Could that be considered a slight security flaw? lata trini0 Jim Weeks wrote: > Since there was some confusion on this question when it was originally > submitted, I will try it again. You will have to look at the source of > this message to see what I mean. > > When using Netscape mail, the Sender field is always the name of the > logged in user on a given machine. For example I am logged in as "jim" > on my laptop at the moment. If you check the header of this email I > think you will find "Sender: jim@earthlink.net" which is not at all > correct. Some MTA's have a problem with this. > > Here is an example of the header in question. > > Sender: jim@earthlink.net > Message-ID: <3AAE41A8.E2F26ECB@siteplus.com> > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:50:01 -0500 > From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Jim@siteplus.com > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Jim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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