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Clyde Smith-Stubbs (clyde@htsoft.com)
Thu, 3 Apr 1997 08:53:14 +1000 

Message-Id: <Mutt.19970403085314.clyde@trojan.htsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 08:53:14 +1000
From: clyde@htsoft.com (Clyde Smith-Stubbs)
Subject: Re: [mSQL] Help needed with sendmail and w3-msql

Thus spake Vivek Khera (khera@kci.kciLink.com):

> Well, you can use them whenever you want. The difference is if you are not a
> "trusted" user in the sendmail configuration, and the authwarnings flag is on,
> sendmail will note the use of -f as an X- header.

Which is an utter waste of time (on sendmail's part), since it is quite
happy to believe whatever you feed it if you talk to it via SMTP on port 25.

Also, not all sendmail implementations behave as described - some simply
ignore the -f option unless you are a trusted user. 

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