Re: Slight hole in the way Majordomo handles email.

[Matt Carothers <matt () telepath com>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, *****Psychotic wrote:

>  well, if you're talking of problem which would allow you to send emails
> directly to X-Y-Z-outgoing@... to avoid filtering and other rules
> restriction, this's been known long ago. the only thing, I've figured out so
> far (but which will increate cpu load on your machine, especially if you're 
> running high-traffic list), is to generate random alias for *-outgoing every
> time, i.g. foo-baz-JKHjhdf73-outgoing.
[...] 
> other  thoughts?

Off topic, but interesting nonetheless.  How about this:

1. Move the *-outgoing aliases out to a new file.
2. Make a second sendmail.cf with the new file as an additional AliasFile and
   an alternate QueueDirectory writeable by the majordomo user (because
   sendmail won't run as root with -C).
3. Add "-C/path/to/new/sendmail.cf" to $sendmail_command in majordomo.cf 

This way sendmail only knows about the listname-outgoing aliases when majordomo
runs it.

- Matt