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

--- Comment #20 from Krinkle <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Marc A. Pelletier from comment #19)
> @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).

But we bypass that filtering when the mail is sent from labs to production?

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