[vdr] Re: mailing-list broken?

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> Am Fre, 2003-08-29 um 22.50 schrieb Martin Fischer:
> > On Friday 29 August 2003 18:54, Rene Bartsch wrote:
> >
> > > All mails have been sent to the VDR-ML by me. The mails and replies have
> > > been received properly by me.
> > > But additionally I get wierd replies by exim from a host "neptunus"
> > > claiming the mail couldn't be delivered to an address "ramonz@neptunus".
> >
> > Same for me. I got 8 mails with this contents this day. It seems to be a
> > wierd virus checker that rejects all incoming mail and tries to deliver
> > a virus warning to the original sender.
> >
> 
> This isn't the first list I have such experiences with crazy filters or
> MTAs. But the first time I've been flooded with mails!
> 
> Having the address of the original sender is a security leak. It could
> either be used to gather adresses by spammers or to DoS-attack users of
> mailing-lists, which could drive off users from projects.
> 
> So the original senders should be removed from header by mailing-list
> server.

And how do you suggest we should know then _who_ has sent a particular
message?

Klaus


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