Re: CVS webwml/english/consultants
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> I mean that everyone could mail as foo@example.com - and if one is
> out to abuse the system they definitely would choose to use
> foo@example.com as sender address and not bar@domain.com.
Yeah; the point here is that if someone wants to change the
information of foo@example.com, you need to send mail to
foo@example.com asking for confirmation (ideally with some kind of
secret that only you and whoever reads foo@example.com would know; the
message-id would probably be enough.)
[Anyone can change envelope From and header From to be any value.]
Don Armstrong
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