[Esd-l] SECURITY_NOTIFY_SENDER= question

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Randy Reames wrote:

> > if this is the case is there a way to just send the warning and /dev/null
> > the actual message?
> 
> I just disable this. Rarely is the From: in the email the real
> sender anyway. With all of these being spoofed all the
> NOTIFY_SENDER does is cause more traffic.

...which leaves the occasional real person who sends an attachment
wondering where it went.

Oh, well. Tradeoffs.

I'm going to try to make the smart reply to a bit smarter based on
what NovArg is doing with Received: headers.

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