On 2013-04-25 10:13:30 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> In "normal" e-mail operations, this may be dependent on the behavior
> of the mail client, i.e. if it sends separate messages for each
> recipient.  In an attack, this is not interesting.  The attacker is at
> your site (he must be, in order to effect a temp file attack).  So, he
> can either send the message to the target and himself from your
> machine, or he can just telnet to your SMTP server and write the
> message by hand.

The server normally adds a "Received:" header with some information
unknown to the attacker.

Anyway, I've seen that you haven't proposed anything else.
Is your point to make Mutt uninstallable on machines without
a /dev/random?

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