sendmail

[Debbie Deutsch]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shahzad Chohan
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:22 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: sendmail
> 
> Hi
> 
> Thanks for the reply. 
> 
> The thing is that even if they are in the To or CC, whoever 
> sent us the mail they should be the one's delivering it to 
> foo.com, not us. We weren't the initial senders of the mail, 
> we were the receivers so sendmail should not look up there 
> DNS enteries. Any ideas on that or am I missing something 
> obvious from your reply.
> 
> Many Thanks
> Shaz
> 
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If the initial sender of an email were attempting to hide its identity, it
might forge the headers that would normally identify it and attempt to relay
the email through a third party, which would relay the email to its
destinations.  In this case, that third party may be you.

Debbie