Scotty,

At 11:22 98/06/09 -0400, Steve Howie (aka Scotty) wrote:

>Actually, Ben Parker from Lsoft solved the problem for me. If the email
>client sending the request is Web-based, it asks for conformation ( for
>obvious security reasons, since forging a From: field is trivial in these
>cases. Just how it knows it's a Web-based client is the question :) The
>user at my site was using netscape 4.04 to send the requests.

Many mail programs identify themselves in the header with an X-Mailer line.
 Here is a sample from four messages in my current IN box:

X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
X-Mailer: Eudora 4.0 for Cray T3E-1200
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1

Mozilla is really Netscape.  I can tell that the sender of the first
message was using Netscape 3.01 on a Mac.


                               Peace,  Dan

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