Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:56:40 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body? Message-ID: <20050615055640.GJ510@aldebaran.local> In-Reply-To: <7e5a492f77be914465be9b2979c00532@chrononomicon.com> References: <20050613043910.GA55308@aldebaran.local> <20050614181719.GC510@aldebaran.local> <366c9fa64160b1789cdef8a524864036@chrononomicon.com> <20050614191538.GD510@aldebaran.local> <7e5a492f77be914465be9b2979c00532@chrononomicon.com>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:33:23PM -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > ... > > Are you absolutely certain that that formatting isn't getting into your > messages by your MUA? It would be very strange indeed for an MTA to > start reformatting it. I would be more inclined to believe that your > MUA has the codes inserted and something may be *stripping* them out, > or maybe converting to another format/MIME type or something like that > in transit before thinking that an MTA or filter is *inserting* > characters. Probably only sniffing the traffic would tell that for > sure. Using tcpdump I have confirmed that my system is reproducing with perfect fidelity the messages as they are transmitted over the wire. Those > characters are being added before they reach my system. The law of parsimony says that it's the Mailman software running this list that's doing it. > ... > > TCPDump is the standard "workhorse" for sniffing traffic on Unix. For > the more graphically inclined, my favorite has been Ethereal. Make > sure you run them with root priv to access the interface in promiscuous > mode. There are a number of options for dumping output to logs or in > hex/ascii format, etc. so you might want to look up an article on using > Ethereal. Dsniff also comes to mind, but I can't remember what exactly > that was designed to capture; there's also Ettercap. Thanks for the tcpdump tip. That tool is solid gold. -- Danny MacMillan
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