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 Message 190 
 Wilfred van Velzen to Fabio Bizzi 
 Re: Node originating a message 
 26 Sep 19 11:20:52 
 
TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes
TZUTC: 0200
CHRS: UTF-8 2
PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221
MSGID: 2:280/464 5d8c82f5
REPLY: 2:335/364.1 5d8c7c4b
Hi Fabio,

On 2019-09-26 10:46:02, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Well in an echomail message you have 4 possible sources:

 WV>>   Header
 WV>>   MSGID kludge
 WV>>   Origin line
 WV>>   PATH line

 WV>> If you don't trust any, you could compare the ones that are present.
 WV>> And if there are inconsistencies report/log/move-to-bad or do whatever
 WV>> you seem appropriate with it. I don't think it's worth it...

 FB> Ok, I see that to forge any header you need to have a full editor like
 FB> golded or msged or similar, with a normal user access like BBS, QWK or
NNTP
 FB> you can't forge these fields.

Indeed.

 FB> Well, now I have enough informations and options to choose in.

Well, not really multiple options. You will have to use the Origin line for
the full address. You can only use the others, to verify... ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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