On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, EDV - WHW (Goesta Smekal) wrote:

>
> On 9 Sep 2002 at 9:50, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Frederik Gallon wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi group,
> > >
> > > Can't we add a custom header so that mail is checked without informing the
> > > 'average' user, because of this 'hidden' custom header?
> > > The existance of this header means that this message came from a auth user
> > > and did pass local SMTP service?
> >
> > X-Auth-User: is already there
>
> Sorry to disagree, but in case of malicious code this doesn't help me
> much. Any header field can be faked.

No, sorry. If there's a Received: header before X-Auth-User: it means that
it has been faked, otherwise it's real. Just try it ...



- Davide



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