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Authored by: robg on Jun 14, '06 09:19:28AM

While there's clearly some risk here, I think it's minimal -- an attacker would have to know (a) what you use for the subject of your email to yourse, and (b) spoof the from address to use your surname.

But as you note, it's simple to add extra protection; even doing something as simple as 'Subject equals Törrént D0wn7oad" would probably suffice.

I don't do much with torrents (occasional Fedora releases), but I like the options that this script enables for remote mail handling.

-rob.



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