Control of list postings by header info
Does anyone have a quick and dirty fix to the rc.custom or rc.init that will reject anonymous postings? We've had some problems recently with some toad sending emails to lists without complete headers, thereby obscuring his/her idenity. The emails had virus files attached. I'd like to dump any postings sent without the header lines that identify the sender and/or host server. Also, the docs are somewhat unclear. If the "foreign_submit = yes" is uncommented, does that permit, or prevent submissions. It would seem logically to permit them, but there are two entries in the file, a "#foreign_submit" and a "##foreign_submit = yes" The docs say to "...uncomment the appropriate entry." I want to restrict posting to people on the hardlinked accept list. Thanks in advance for the help!
From: "MRFA Membership Chairman" <membership@mrfa.org>
Also, the docs are somewhat unclear. If the "foreign_submit = yes" is uncommented, does that permit, or prevent submissions. It would seem logically to permit them, but there are two entries in the file, a "#foreign_submit" and a "##foreign_submit = yes" The docs say to "...uncomment the appropriate entry." I want to restrict posting to people on the hardlinked accept list.
The first line (#foreign_submit) is the default, the second line (##foreign_submit = yes) is the one you can uncomment. In this case foreign_submit is off by default: uncommenting the 2nd line would be permitting them. You also have lines where the second one is ##blabla. When you uncomment that, you override the default setting by removing it. Problem with the accept list is that when people now your adres, they can use it to send mail...... Jelmer
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