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Re: Email Mangling
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:12:29 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Email Mangling
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.58.0403050248110.596@lap>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Gregory Borota wrote:
> Looking at the headers for a message I sent recently (id 89248) I see that
> my email address was not mutilated in the Received: field. If one uses
> SBC Yahoo's smtp server he has his email address as username.
>
> If this is a very isolated incident then maybe nobody should bother.
> If not maybe it should. I personally no longer care, I changed the smtp
> server, just wanted to point this out (don't know if this subject already
> discussed, too many hits for sbc yahoo if googling the archive).
>
> Greg
Greg,
Since the raw text is generated by a CGI script, steps could be taken to
block spam harvesters from even seeing it... OTOH, it might be easier to
just run the substitution on the Received: header...
Igor
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