Re: How to tell IP address of remote machine?

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:12:05 -0430,
  Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> How do they check? IIRC Mailman doesn't have very sophisticated
> authentication features. Many installations just look at the From line,
> which you can change.

Mailman typically checks the envelope sender address rather than then
a header from the message. Some mail delivery agents will add a From line
(which is different than the From header) on final delivery that includes
the envelope sender address (or the rfc 821 encoding of it). But that line
isn't part of the message until final delivery.

There is a chance that this is the check being used to thwart the original
poster. But it's also possible that the mailman server is firewalled.
If his university has a vpn or if he has machines he can into remotely,
he might be able to work around that limitation.

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