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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:15:18 -0500
From: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Netscape mail again
To: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com>
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I think I know what you mean.  Sometimes I see in the headers,
(loginname@optonline.net), when I actually stated in ns mail for my
identity to be trini0@optonline.net.  Whats up with that??  Could that be
considered a slight security flaw?
lata
trini0

Jim Weeks wrote:

> Since there was some confusion on this question when it was originally
> submitted, I will try it again.  You will have to look at the source of
> this message to see what I mean.
>
> When using Netscape mail, the Sender field is always the name of the
> logged in user on a given machine.  For example I am logged in as "jim"
> on my laptop at the moment.  If you check the header of this email I
> think you will find "Sender: jim@earthlink.net" which is not at all
> correct.  Some MTA's have a problem with this.
>
> Here is an example of the header in question.
>
> Sender: jim@earthlink.net
> Message-ID: <3AAE41A8.E2F26ECB@siteplus.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:50:01 -0500
> From: Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386)
> X-Accept-Language: en
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> To: Jim@siteplus.com
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
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