Re: [Evolution] Setting the "from address" in evolution?

[Jason A Miller <jmiller chipnet dyndns org>]

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 (president whitehouse gov,
billg microsoft com, etc.).

Unless I misunderstood (which I probably did), this is what sudhakar was
asking to be able to do.

--- J A Miller (Linuxdevr)
jmiller gootnee com
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.
>
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