Re: Debian machine usage policy
> Wichert Akkerman - Debian project leader wrote:
> > * Forged headers and / or Addresses
> >
> > Forging headers or messages means sending mail such that its
> > origin appears to be another user or machine, or a
> > non-existent machine.
> >
> > It is also forgery to arrange for any replies to the mail to
> > be sent to some other user or machine.
> >
> > However, in either case, if prior permission has been
> > granted to you by the other user or the administrators of
> > the other machine, then there is no problem, and of course
> > "null" reverse paths can be used as defined in the relevant
> > RFCs.
>
> I suspect that this .muttrc fragment violates the letter of the DMUP:
>
> send-hook (debian) "my_hdr From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>"
> send-hook !(debian) "my_hdr From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>"
>
> I have this .muttrc propigated to all debian machines. This means that if I
> send mail from one of those machines that does not contain "debian" in the
> header, the mail will be "forged" to appear to be from a different machine.
> This will also arrange for replies to it to go to another machine.
>
> I think you need to loosen up your language about this.
But you *are* the other user!
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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