> > > It was found that sendmail's -f option will allow you to forge the
> > > envelope line. Adding myself as a (Thypnotik) trusted user to sendmail's
> > > configuration file ceased the X-Authentication warnings.
> >
> > Warning: you might as well be sending mail as "root" then, since you're
> > giving yourself the right to do just about anything with sendmail.
>
> Really? I thought that v8 sendmail basically igored trusted users
> except for turning off the authentication warnings for them. I might be
> wrong...
Maybe .. I haven't look at this part of the code in a long, long time :-)
In any case, it isn't the right answer. UserDB or genericstable are the
general approaches to doing exactly what he needs.
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