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- From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
- Subject: Re: elm wish list
- Message-ID: <syscrc.721158601@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
- Organization: Georgia State University
- References: <846@rc1.vub.ac.be> <1992Nov5.023642.5435@DSI.COM> <Bx9GEr.C5M@ars2.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:50:01 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- briank@ars2.uucp (D. Brian Kimmel) writes:
-
- >In <1992Nov5.023642.5435@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
-
- >>apardon@rc1.vub.ac.be (Antoon Pardon) writes:
- >>>1) I am a member of the supportteam at our site. That means I
- >>> get mail that is addressed to support as well as my own. What
- >>> I would like to do is say to elm that when I answer a mail to
- >>> support, The From field should contains the support address
- >>> and a Sender field should be added with my personal address.
- >>> An alternative would be to automatically add a Reply-To field
- >>> with the support address when answering support mail.
- >>> The second alternative is possible by hand, but I prefer the
- >>> first solution and certainly an automated one.
- >
- >Excellent Idea!
- >
- >>Neither of your items is planned, nor would I ever expect Elm
- >>to handle those. Its too complicated and special cased.
- >
- >I think that this feature would be a valuable addition to elm.
- >A *reply* to mail aliased into your mailbox could build the
- >From: line from the received To: line and build a Sender: line
- >as the current From: line is being constructed. This would
- >only occur if the users LOGNAME is not part of the To: field.
- >Also There could be another flag in the elmrc to allow this
- >optional behavior.
- >
- >This seems Not All That Hard to do but I am not familiar with the
- >internals of elm. Anyone care to comment or even better, implement
- >this and send the diffs to Syd for inclusion into a patch?
- >
- >Brian
- >--
- >D. Brian Kimmel / briank@ars2.UUCP \ The Emerald City....
- >Director of R & D \ Voice (206) 325-8922 / Seattle, Washington.
- >Automated Retail Systems \ Fax (206) 325-9127 / Standard disclaimer(s).
-
- Please don't flame me if I don't fully understand what you are suggesting,
- but I would like the raise a question.
-
- Wouldn't this suggested feature allow allow an e-mail security hole? For
- example, a bad guy could type in a fake letter complete with headers from
- another person (i.e. a fake "To:" line). Let's say he uses "To: root".
- Then, store it in a folder, reply to it and Elm would put "From: root" in
- the headers?
-
- Don't get me wrong, I like the concept of your suggestion (I could even use
- it myself), but how could the above situation be avoided? I thought your
- statement about the LOGNAME addressed the situation but I'm not sure.
- I suppose Elm could check the system aliases file to see if the exists
- an legitimate alias for the reply. I can understand Syd's concern of
- complicating Elm.
-
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