feature suggestion

[David Shaw]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:12:39PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:28:33 +0100, Janusz A Urbanowicz said:
> 
> > No MUA I know of, does this. Maybe the Mahogany will do.
> 
> I have a Mutt version which does this and the latest KMail does it
> also.
> 
> > I also don't know if it is good idea to enlist all possible
> > addresses that I may use in any context. I can think of about 8
> > addresses that my emails can come from (that I use in various
> > contexts and situations). Should I list all
> 
> At least a warning should be displayed.  I am pretty sure that this is
> a real world attack.

I think a warning (rather than a hard error) is the right thing to do
here.  It's something the user needs to know, but the false positive
rate would be too high to make it a hard error except in special
situations.

David

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