Re: [Evolution] some info please

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 14:14 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
> I'll probably get told off for asking, but it does need someone with a
> knowledge of evo to answer.
> I getting some threatening spam ,

Is it along the lines of "we've hacked into your camera and got the
pictures. Pay us or we'll make them public." If so, ignore it.

> the last part of the header looks like this:-
>
> Date: 4 Oct 2018 17:43:38 +0200 (04/10/18 16:43:38)
> From: richard g8jvm com
> X-Priority: 3
> Message-Id: <666322984 201810041749 g8jvm com>
> To: toeakveir <richard g8jvm com>
> Subject: [SPAM] Account Issue
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp-850"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> X-Spam-Prev-Subject: Account Issue
> X-Evolution-Source: 1455038713.12053.2@richard-Inspiron-N5030
>
> Now that last line after the @ is actually the linux name of this
> laptop
> Is the number before it the index of the received mail or the index of
> the sent mail.

Neither.  It's the internal account UUID of where the mail is stored.
It's never exposed to the outside world and is only present when you
view the mail in Evolution. That exact same string will be present in
all emails on that account.

If you look in ~/.cache/evolution/mail you will see the same strings.

> Looking at sent mails that format is used on outgoing mail, is it also
> used on incoming as well.?
> I'm trying to determine if who ever is spoofing my email address has
> got the computer name from mail I've sent to someone or a list, or from
> this laptop with malware, but I haven't found anything.
> Hence asking those with an expert knowledge of how evolution handle
> mail.

As I said, neither. It's an internal identifier added by Evolution -
it's not even stored in the cached email, it's added by Evolution on
the fly as it displays the mail.

P.