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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

what about if it only accepted mail from a given address?

anyway, thanks for the help with this guys...

as for the sendmail part, anyone know how i configure that kind of 
stuff on OS X?

thanks a lot
ian


On Oct 14, 2003, at 1:31 PM, Steven Champeon wrote:

> on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:25:01PM -0400, Ilan Volow wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 11:25  AM, Steven Champeon wrote:
> >
> > > on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:24:02AM -0400, zman wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Steven Champeon wrote:
> > > > > Wouldn't be hard at all, actually. Completely, insanely,
> > > > > ridiculously,
> > > > > insecure, sure. But not hard to do. Via sendmail's aliases file:
> > > >
> > > > and then the SPAM starts going to that address...
> > >
> > > Exactly the problem Greg had with metababy.
> >
> > Couldn't you include some sort of public key thingy that verifies your
> > identity as an attachment to the e-mail, and make sure on the server
> > that info from e-mails is posted only if the e-mail has an attachment
> > that checks out?
>
> Sure, but then you've opened yourself up to DoS attack, as pgp/gpg
> churns through signed messages.
>
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