envelope from address spoofing

Bug #785267 reported by Robert Marianski
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KARL3
Fix Released
Medium
Chris Rossi

Bug Description

When sending any message from karl, the envelope from address needs to be set as from a legitimate domain for that machine, possibly the system domain. Otherwise, mail servers can block the messages, thinking that it is spoofed or spam.

The from header in the message is separate, and can remain whatever it needs to be. This change just needs to be made for the envelope from (the smtp "Mail From:")

Tags: r3.66
Changed in karl3:
milestone: none → m59
Changed in karl3:
assignee: nobody → Chris Rossi (chris-archimedeanco)
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in karl3:
milestone: m59 → m60
Changed in karl3:
milestone: m60 → m61
Changed in karl3:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Chris Rossi (chris-archimedeanco) wrote :

I've added a new setting to Karl: 'envelope_from_addr'. All outgoing mail now uses the value of this setting as the envelope from address. If this setting is not set explicitly, it defaults to: karl@<system_email_domain>. This should alleviate the need for any currently running Karl instances to update their configuration.

JimPGlenn (jpglenn09)
tags: added: r3.66
Revision history for this message
JimPGlenn (jpglenn09) wrote :

fixed

Changed in karl3:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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