>...What the devil is with all of these X-Authentication-Warning headers
>that I see stickered onto every single article (including my own)? Most of
>them are couched in arcane technical terms like "jranuser owned process
>doing -bs".... whatever -bs is and however that is relevant to authenticity
>or falsity of list messages. (Smells distinctly of Unix to me... and -bs
>sounds like a command-line option, not a process you might run such as ls
>or ps...see? I know more than you might have spposed about Unix.)
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. The -f flag is a option to the 'sendmail' program,
-fname Sets the name of the ``from'' person (i.e., the sender of the
mail). -f can only be used by ``trusted'' users (normally
root, daemon, and network) or if the person you are trying to
become is the same as the person you are.
clear? (as mud, no doubt).
-jrp (who prefers microsoft on the desktop but uses eunichs servers where
appropriate)
