[Mailman-Users] how to prevent postings with faked moderator emailadress

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Fri Feb 27 17:19:52 CET 2004


At 2:36 PM +0100 2004/02/27, Tobias Bielohlawek wrote:

>  But as you know, emailadresses can be faked and so it is possible that
>  somebody else  can post to the list.

	Yup.

>  Is there any way to make the list more secure?

	I think there were some PGP signing hacks made a long time ago, 
but I don't think they've been updated in years.  You'd probably have 
to either bring them up-to-date, or downgrade your mailman 
installation severely.

>  e.g. the moderator has to put a password into his posting or subject!?

	Other than the PGP handling, I'm not aware of anything.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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