Re: [aclug-L] strange question w/ *nix mail

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Which Sendmail version are you using?  Can you forward the headers
from one of those messages to us (or me)?  Sendmail has a way to
bounce those messages automatically, I believe, but I'd have to see
the specific circumstances to be able to tell you how.

John

Jesse Kaufman <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> ok, recently we have had a problem w/ people spoofing e-mails by
> changing their preferences in outlook.  i am one of the people who helps
> maintain the network here at my college, and since i am kind of the *nix
> person, i was curious if there is any way i can do something about that
> w/ grep and some shell script.  you see, somewhere (im not sure when /
> where) the text "may be forged" is in the headers of the e-mails sent
> like this.  i'm not sure if this is done when outlook97 sends, or when
> my netscape receives the e-mail, or somewhere in between.  what i am
> thinking, is if it is appended to the header before it reaches frodo
> (our incoming e-mail server), if there is a way to grep all incoming
> e-mails for that phrase, then send them to /dev/null if it contains
> that.  is this a practical way to do this, or is it even possible?  i
> would like to help them out, but as my knowledge of unix mail stuff
> isn't the greatest, i'm asking this list for any ideas...
> 
> ANYTHING is better than nothing! : ^ )
> 
> jesse
> 
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