From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 10: 4:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C4D37BAA8 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 130564-000EkZ-00; Thu, 08 Jun 2000 17:23:56 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 130564-0007FW-00; Thu, 08 Jun 2000 17:23:56 +0100 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:23:56 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps ax/sendail Message-ID: <20000608172356.V42325@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000607231912.A5191@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > Why would sendmail want to use auth to determine a user name for someone > that is not local to our networks and has no user name? Or am I missing > the point of what you are saying? It can help the administrator of the remote site track abuse. If the headers added by your server just said "received: from foo.bar.com" that wouldn't help the admin at bar.com determine who had sent an abusive message (assuming the abuser sent it direct to your host, without using the mail system on foo.bar.com directly). If it says "received: from foo.bar.com (ident=luser45)" or something that's more helpful. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message