On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, EDV - WHW (Goesta Smekal) wrote:
> > On 11 Sep 2002 at 15:51, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, EDV - WHW (Goesta Smekal) wrote: > > > > > Well, technically speaking you are certainly right (you wrote the > > > daemon anyway ;-) ) but what I need is an aproach, non-techs can > > > easily understand. > > > > This is _really_ a tech argoument, doing filters is definitely not an > > XMail 101 task. You screw up with filters, you lose messages. > > Sorry, I did not mean _users_ should uderstand how to _build the > filters_. They don't even have access to the filters dir, and it is > good that way ;-) (besides they don't even have access to the system > except POP/SMTP - as it should be with any mailserver, but we are not > discussing 'how to secure a server', are we ?) > > Users (on remote systems, not 'my' users) should easily be able to > check the vailidity of the origin of mails that claim to come from > my.domain. You can't expect the average user to know how to display > mail header fields with his/her MUA, but you can expect them to see > the dig-sig at the end. And if they bother me I tell them 'if no sig > there, not from me pal'. > > So until Worm-writers forge my digital signature I am in advantage. > And I don't expect this to happen anyway ;-) > > Personal note: Is my english that bad, or my idea of signing outgoing > mail so weird, that it takes four postings to make it clear ? `:-) it is not difficult to prove that a message come from your servers if you really need, use the Received: trace. usually people wants to make sure that mail come from a given person/company not from given MTAs. anyway you can do this with XMail + filters. ( you don't need to cc my address in these messages, i read the mailing list ) - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
