On Monday 11 August 2003 10:24 am, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Ainsi parlait Ken Thompson :
> > How are they getting my personal IP when I'm connecting through a
> > firewall?
>
> Cause they are in the mail enveloppe headers.
>
> > Does Kmail send this info somehow and if so, how can it be turned off?
>
> It can't, it wouldn't be RFC compliant otherwise.
This seem to go against what I thought was one of the reasons for having a 
firewall in the first place. I don't understand why email needs to send the 
specific machine IP address.
> If you really care, install a SMTP server and perform headers rewriting.
Can't, ISP limitations.
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Ken Thompson WA7SYR
Payette, Idaho
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