Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Forward: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

[Jeff Bailey]

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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