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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!decwrl!hookup!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Write Secret Love Letters Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 02:51:29 GMT Organization: Senarius Inc. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <50di6r$jmd@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <Dx0p2v.7rn@konark.ncst.ernet.in> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: mctnts01c24.nbnet.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 On stardate Sat, 31 Aug 1996 19:35:18 GMT, guest@konark.ncst.ernet.in (SANJEEV SHARMA) sent holographic email and wrote: >Use the following bug in the Mail Protocol - (RFC 822) where it does'nt >check the sender's identity even if he is on the same machine. >************************************************ >Telnet MACHINENAME 25 >HELO FICTITOUS_NAME >MAIL FROM :<FICTITIOUS_NAME> >RCPT TO :<RECIPIENTS_NAME> >DATA >HI DARLING, THIS IS TESTING >I COULD HAVE SENT ANY LETTER >TO U >. >QUIT Well isnt this nice. Fakemailing. Does this have anything to do with BSDI? No. Anwyay. If this was a bug, then it would have been fixed long ago BTW. Tell me, how are you suppost to check a users identy (I presume email address)? You can't, and if you tried, you would get really wierd headers. Anyway, keep crap like this off this newsgroup and put it in /dev/null. Im sure the last thing people want is for some lame newbie telnetting to their machines mailserver and sending fakemail from Root "System Administrator". -- ,-------------------------------------------------------, |Lance Cavener Systems Administrator | |cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca Senarius Inc. | |admin@novacon.com | |"Microsoft sent 54 programmers to Apple? You lie......"| `-------------------------------------------------------'