Re: Debian machine usage policy

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> 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