From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 15 05:57:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC8116A41C for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:57:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A6243D48 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:57:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0II400F2Y36HOLJP@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:56:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0II40042H36H3390@pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:56:41 -0600 (MDT) Received: from aldebaran.local (S01060010a72631f9.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.46.209]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with SMTP id <0II400I5236GUB@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:56:40 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 2630 invoked by uid 1001); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:56:40 +0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:56:40 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: <7e5a492f77be914465be9b2979c00532@chrononomicon.com> To: Bart Silverstrim Message-id: <20050615055640.GJ510@aldebaran.local> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <20050613043910.GA55308@aldebaran.local> <20050614181719.GC510@aldebaran.local> <366c9fa64160b1789cdef8a524864036@chrononomicon.com> <20050614191538.GD510@aldebaran.local> <7e5a492f77be914465be9b2979c00532@chrononomicon.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Solved] How to disable > quoting of lines starting with From in email body? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:57:07 -0000 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