My apologies. I didn't mean to sound quite that confrontational there. What I was merely trying to point out is that, if there were a way to simply click a text dialog and type in a From: address, it would be very easy to make one's self look like anybody ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.).
Unless I misunderstood (which I probably did), this is what sudhakar was asking to be able to do. --- J A Miller (Linuxdevr) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chipnet.dyndns.org/ On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:05 +0100, Jamie L. Penman-Smithson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 04:52, Jason A Miller wrote: > > I don't know about anyone else on this list, but to me that would be an > > extraordinarily dangerous ability for a mail client to have. > > Throwing about hysterical comments such as this, is not particularly > helpful. You can *already* change your email address to whatever you > want, you can pretend to be the Prime Minister of Mongolia, such is the > nature of the SMTP protocol. You can even do this (*shock* *horror*) in > Evolution already - change your From address to whatever you please. > > > As a mail server administrator, I would most certainly find the person who was > > forging hundreds of emails at a time and virtually castrate them. ;-> > > The issue is not "extraordinarily dangerous" abilities in a mail client > - if you're worried about that, please don't run a mail server, let > alone a mail client. > > > Even for "research", this is a bad idea all around. > > Why, exactly? It's common practise to use different addresses for > different purposes with the aim of knowing who is doing what with your > email address. > > Making it slightly easier to change the address your mail comes from > 'on-the-fly' is not going to open the flood gates to forged emails, > despite what you may think, there are far easier ways of doing that. > > You still fail to understand the reasoning behind such an approach. > > > Sorry for being a bit O.T. Just have been following this thread and didn't > > want it to restart. > > -- > -jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | spamtrap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: http://www.silverdream.org | p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > pgp key @ http://silverdream.org/~jps/pub.key > 11:30:01 up 9:10, 3 users, load average: 0.13, 0.41, 0.34 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
