[Mailman-Users] authenticating messages

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Thu Oct 28 02:43:04 CEST 2004


Brian Sammon wrote:

>How does mailman authenticate messages to verify that the sender is a member 
>of the list?  Does it use the From header, the Sender header, or the SMTP 
>envelope?
>Is this configurable?

It's configurable.

See the comments in Defaults.py preceding the assignments

USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = No

and

SENDER_HEADERS = ('from', None, 'reply-to', 'sender')

As always, make changes in mm_cfg.py, not Defaults.py.

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