Multiple "clean" signatures --- Fixed

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 18 10:16:34 IST 2002


At 09:37 18/07/2002, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 18:53, Julian Field wrote:
> > It now uses the presence of the "X-MailScanner:" header to work out if it
> > should sign it or not. If the header is already there, it will assume it
> > has already been signed and will not sign it again.
> >
> > I know this is easy to defeat by users adding fake "X-MailScanner:" headers
> > to their mail, but since signing is not a vital function I didn't think it
> > really mattered, and there is no way to do it otherwise (if you have
> > messages passing through more than 1 MailScanner server). If you have
> > changed the "X-MailScanner:" header to some other name, you will obviously
> > need to be consistent across your site for this feature to work. (Otherwise
> > it doesn't know what header to look for!)
>just as a clarification, it now works like this?

Header exists --> don't sign
No header --> sign if scanned and clean
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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