Subject: Re: Setting a global From address

From: [email-masked] (Daniel D. Todd)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 02:40:29 -0700

At 09:52 AM 4/15/94, Barry Cornelius wrote:

>Although it may be useful at other sites, we would be very unhappy if our
>users have the ability to change the From: line.  I hope that, if this
>facility is included, you will also allow for the person who is installing
>Pine to disable the facility. 
>
>If not, we will have to patch Pine 3.90 when we receive it in order to
>disable the setting of the From: line.  If we don't do this, my guess we
>would have lots of faked mail sent. 
>
And hope no-one compiles it in their own directory?

cheers,
Dan
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From: Laurie Cuthbert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 11:03:33 GMT

I agree. We have a lot of aggravation with people using Eudora setting the 
From: field incorrectly. In fact its so much of a pain that we have a table in 
our MTA (smail) setup that looks for people who have an incorrect From: field 
and re-writes it for them (in those cases we throw away their Repy-To: field 
on the grounds that if they have messed around with From: then Reply-To: is 
also likely to be wrong!).

The only 2 MUAs that currently give us NO grief are pine and ECSmail so it 
would be a pity if there was no configuration switch to turn off such 
facilities.

This is especially important with PC-Pine that we use with students in 
unsupervised environments - we have already had instances with faked mail (in 
some cases obscene faked mail) from people doing a telnet to port 25 so I 
would hate to see life made easier for the little .....s

Regards

Laurie Cuthbert

On Fri, 15 Apr 1994 09:52:58 +0100 (BST) Barry Cornelius wrote:

> From: Barry Cornelius <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 09:52:58 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: Re: Setting a global From address
> To: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Cindy Jenkins <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, David L Miller wrote:
> > Cindy,
> > The next release of Pine will support both the Reply-To: header and a
> > pre-settable From: header.  We expect to have it available later this 
spring. 
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