the reason why we want to do this is for our thesis project. we wanted to implement an anonymous remailer on a MTA-level...you are correct when you said that the MTA will receive mail via SMTP and then as the middle-person replace all references to the sender foo with some bogus, randomly generated, sender xyz. yan ang gusto namin gawin...we want to ask paano ba namin ito magagawa? it was just an idea in the beginning but now we have to implement the idea :) though the reasons for "anonymizing" email sounds like a bad one. it is not our intention to do harmful things to the recipients....we just want to try if this is possible on MTA-level.
>On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> kelangan namin ang username para i-randomize to make it appear >> anonymously sa recipient. Given: [EMAIL PROTECTED], foo, which is the >> username, will be randomly generated. thus, foo becomes xyz. the >> false username will then be concatenated to the hostname: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> this should not be traceable. > > What??? You want to write a program that will "anonymize" email? While > this sounds interesting, I'm curious: what the hell for? It sounds more > like a spamming thing than anything. Or something to send out other > "toxic" stuff (computer viruses?). > > But it's interesting anyway so let me ask away: > > How will things "flow"? Will the MTA receive mail via SMTP and then as > the middle-person replace all references to the sender foo with some > bogus, randomly generated, sender xyz? Or will the mail be sent locally > (via mailtools? mailx?)? > > If you want to write a program that will simply send anonymous email, > this should be trivial. Just write a program that will connect to the > SMTP port and send a bogus MAIL FROM. > > --> Jijo > > -- > Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. > GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at > http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using SquirrelMail. "Webmail for nuts!" http://squirrelmail.org/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
