[pmmail-list] PMMail and network security issue.

[Maynard Riley]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:18:09 -0400 (EDT), Rich wrote:

>Maybe, but it's not making it through your server. If you check your own headers, there's no "claiming to be" at the 
>end of the first received line.

Rich, I've never seen "claiming to be" anywhere that I recall. Also, my
posts to this list do not route through Weasel, but through my ISP.

The HELO parameter as passed to both is 'captain', which you can see in
the first Received line which is supplied by my ISP.

the Received line of Weasel looks quite the same:

Received: from captain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by captain (Weasel
v1.20) for ....

The first 'captain' is the HELO argument supplied by PMMail; the second
is Weasel's understanding of the name for its local IP, which I believe
it takes from HOSTS, but don't know that for certain.

I changed the HOSTS file just now, and sent myself a local message via
Weasel. The header now shows:

Received: from Was_captain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by captain (Weasel
v1.20)

Weasel may pick up the change in HOSTS if I restart it; but my version
of PMMail/2 (v.2.00.150) picked it up right away.

	`~Maynard





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