https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48786

Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #19 from Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> ---
@Krinkle: Nothing; email is not secure and there is no sender verification. 
Anyone can fake From: headers.

> I'm pretty sure something somewhere already ensures that you can't just
> imitate someone @wikimedia.org from outside production (e.g. my home
> computer) and successfully post to a members-only list like 
> mediawiki-announce.

Only insofar, apparently, as it doesn't come from outside our network.

(I've tested it and, at the very least, naive rewriting of the From: header is
filtered).

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