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Re: Preventing malicious subscriptions to mailing lists

1997-04-09 13:41:00
A (At) 14:12 7/04/97, era eriksson écrivait (wrote):

Since you end up "gulping" the message anyway, how about generating a
response of your own which looks sufficiently like a real bounce to
have the desired effect? You probably wouldn't have to "forge" a

The problem is that procmail only know the headers, not the envelope.
Hence, formail cannot generate a proper reply: it could send the message to
a whole mailing list if Reply-To is set!

Only sendmail knows the envelope (MAIL FROM). Or you have to convince
sendmail to pass it to procmail.