[InterNetNews/inn] b5ca9d: inews: Do not check From/Sender of cancel articles

Julien ÉLIE noreply at github.com
Sat Feb 19 20:34:42 UTC 2022


  Branch: refs/heads/main
  Home:   https://github.com/InterNetNews/inn
  Commit: b5ca9d04e571c24c7eeda4cddf9157df0cdfe532
      https://github.com/InterNetNews/inn/commit/b5ca9d04e571c24c7eeda4cddf9157df0cdfe532
  Author: Julien ÉLIE <Julien-Elie at users.noreply.github.com>
  Date:   2022-02-19 (Sat, 19 Feb 2022)

  Changed paths:
    M doc/pod/inews.pod
    M doc/pod/news.pod
    M frontends/inews.c

  Log Message:
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  inews: Do not check From/Sender of cancel articles

inews was checking if the From or Sender header fields of a cancel or
supersede request matched the ones of the original article being withdrawn.
This check is inefficient and no longer encouraged by RFC 5537.

see #158




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