On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:50:14PM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:45:48PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
 
> > > And how do I allow only a restricted set of envelope from values (with 
> > > sendmail
> > > -f)?
> 
> > I think this is not possible.
 
> Correct, sendmail(1) is not privileged, and it sets the envelope sender
> used by postdrop(1) either via "-f" or from getpwuid().
 
> Since procmail(1), and other utilities need to be able to forward mail
> while retaining the original envelope sender address, restricting the
> envelope sender address in sendmail would be quite disruptive. Postfix
> does not provide such a feature.

Ok, that makes sense.

Thanks for the clarification.

Best regards
Georg

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