Re: [leafnode-list] Idea: Aliases for sender

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

Martin Fischer wrote:

> - 'user@xxxxxxxxxxx' would become 'user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> - 'user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' would become 'anotherid@xxxxxxxxxxx' for
>   those of us using a freemail provider to prevent spam.

As said by others, I would prefer an RFC-conforming address. In any
case, I wonder what prevents users from setting their preferred return
address in their newsreader. Given the awful lot of people posting
with faked return addresses nowadays, this can't be too difficult :-)

> - 'spammer@xxxxxxxxxxxx' could be stopped from delivery ( for those local
>   users, that specify an illegal user / domain information in their news
>   reader).

Again, I think it's the responsibility of the user, not of the admin,
to put a correct return address in the From: header.

If you really want to tamper with outgoing messages, it is still possible -
as you suggested - to run a job over /var/spool/news/out.going/ before
invoking fetchnews. I would also assume that this is a much more flexible
solution than to build something into Leafnode.

Just my 0.02 EUR,

--Cornelius.

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