At 09:56 15.11.98 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
>you mean
>
>X-Authentication-Warning: acid.base.com: majordomo set sender to
>owner-mersenne using -f
>
>?
>
>thats letting the reader know that the sender was 'forced' to something other
>than its own account. majordomo is the mail list server software, and
>generally runs in an special account called 'majordomo'. When it sends the
>mail message to a particular list, it changes the 'sender' field to be
>'owner-listname@hostname' rather than 'majordomo@hostname'. late model
>versions of the core email server software add that 'warning' to aid in
>tracing 'forged' email.
....and the proper way to remove the warning is to add the line
Tmajordomo
to /etc/sendmail.cf, saying that the sendmail admin trusts the majordomo
persona to not do anything "illegal".
>From the Department of Magic Incantations,
Harald A
--
Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
