Posting to the list is inadequate. I'm a digest subscriber. This should have been documented in the release notes - it's a major security hole now.
Lee ------- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:37:10 -0400 From: Sanford Whiteman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Warning to runners of LISTSERV's using IMAIL and the 7.11 patch Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unbeknownst to me, and unannounced in their release notes, iMail has > modified the rules for posters in their latest patch. FTR, John's announcement to the list did signal changes to IMAILSRV, though not as in-depth as you'd have liked: > - If a user is in posters.lst for a list they will always be able to > post to that list > I found this out the hard way after a spammer subscribed to my list > and spammed my viruswarning list with a Nigerian $$ scam - all > within 6 hours of the patch being released and applied on my > machine. Yuck. That sucks. Another way to prevent this, unless the return address was actually valid and monitored, is to use Declude Confirm. Thanks for the info. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
