From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 16:26: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD38837B718 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 93646 invoked by uid 100); 14 Mar 2001 00:25:57 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15022.47765.119222.240179@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:25:57 -0600 To: Jim Weeks Cc: Mike Meyer , trini0 , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail again In-Reply-To: <3AAEB598.6B32721@siteplus.com> References: <15022.33450.352537.801500@guru.mired.org> <3AAEB598.6B32721@siteplus.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Weeks types: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > Actually, it could be considered a slight security feature. From: is > > for the author(s). Sender is used when the person sending the message > > is different than the From header. Given the amount of flack Netscape > > took for making it trivial to forge email, that they now notice the > > sender and from mailbox being different and add a sender can be > > considered DTRT. > All of this would fine and good if the Sender: field was actually correct. The > sender field should be "my_earthlink_login@earthlink.net" not > "my_machine_login@earthlink.net". If the sender field was correct there wouldn't > be a problem since "my_earthlink_login@earthlink.net" is a valid email address. That's pretty much what I said further down. And yes, that's a problem - bounces get thrown away. As a workaround, you might try tweaking the netscape startup script to set the USER and LOGNAME environment variables, as it does read those. I wouldn't expect it to work, though. If you're using a BSD version, a more extreme approach would be to have the script start an suid command to create a new session then call setlogin and go back to the real userid, in hopes that it uses one of the getlogin variants. It's probably easier to try netscape's tech support on this one, though. What I'd like to know is where it gets the "earthlink.net" domain name from. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message