how to change my source address in sendmail??

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Wed Aug 4 21:10:43 UTC 2004


Am Mi, den 04.08.2004 schrieb Scot L. Harris um 22:36:

> > I must confess not to know which specific settings Pine allow, but from
> > what is normally possible by MUA settings I have to say: the MUA
> > settings set the From: inside the mail, they don't set the envelope
> > sender address. If the user would be allowed to change the envelope
> > sender address I even would find it problematic - at least if you have
> > not 100% trust on each of your users of the mail server.

> If you want to send different envelope sender address from the From:
> line simply use telnet to send you message or write a simple perl
> script.  :)

> Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com>

Right, but that would bypass the MTA in general and you need more than
just mail user permissions on the host, you need shell access.

Alexander


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