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. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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