From: shankar@chromatic.com (Shankar Unni) Subject: Re: operator message 5 Feb 1997 13:24:23 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32F8D176.48AF.cygnus.gnu-win32@chromatic.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) Original-To: oyehia@dsuper.net Original-CC: Grant Leslie , GNU-WIN32 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com do i care? wrote: > actually this is a result of a fake email, apprently to means, pine knew > that the message was fake, notice the sender address is from brazil, while > it shows that he's the operator of cygnus... Geez, it's nothing that fancy, folks. operator@wherever seems to have simply done /usr/lib/sendmail gnu-win32@cygnus.com with an empty body fed into stdin. Sendmail will stick in an Apparently-To: synthesized from the recipients on the command line if there's no "To:" line in the message (which there obviously isn't: he seems to have fed an empty file to sendmail). The other headers are all synthesized by sendmail in its normal course of operation.. The "To: " header is not guaranteed to exist.. -- Shankar Unni shankar@chromatic.com Chromatic Research (408) 752-9488 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".