On 12Apr2009 10:30, Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com> wrote:
| On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:34:14AM +0200, Markus Mueller wrote:
| > However,
| > if you look at all headers, 'h' as default in pagermode, you will most
| > likely find some unique header. Be it 'To:' or something else.
| > The mutt-users list also is quite distinguishable:
[...]
| > Sender: owner-mutt-us...@mutt.org
| >
| > Sender probably is the best field for this purpose, as nobody besides the
| > admin can influence what is put there, whereas one could write mail
| > 'To: f...@invalid, mutt-users@mutt.org'
|
| Thanks for the insight, I have a question, do you mean that only the
| sender header is only influenced by the admin but other headers can be
| rewritten by MTAs or others?
Pretty much. Sender can be written too. However, we're not defeating forgery,
we're trying to identify all mutt-users posts. The mailing list software
_always_ puts that header in, regardless of what people put in the to/cc/bcc
lines etc. So it is reliable in that sense.
Cheers,
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