I understand that the identities issue is an issue with every desktop client, 
and that RoundCube is suppose to be a desktop-esk client in a browser. Still 
that being said, I would maintain that Identities is a feature and it would be 
nice if admins had the ability to turn that feature off. If I am alone on this 
then so be it, I will just turn it off myself, o be the glory of open source. 
But I still thought the point was valid to raise.

Btw, Jason, I like your satire, good work.

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Jim Lester
ACM Staff Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:58:52 -0500, Jason Stelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Jan 8, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Jim Lester wrote:
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>> So I like the ability to have multiple identities but right now its
>> a huge security risk to have enable the way I see it. Since there
>> is no indication in the header of the original username, and also
>> no check to authorize the user for the address they are adding, I
>> just can't allow my users to have that option. It wont even be a
>> day before people start sending emails out as me and as the
>> officers. Does anybody else share this sentiment? If so, I propose
>> that there needs to be 1) a simple way to disable it and 2) a way
>> to force RC to put the original identity into the headers of the
>> outgoing message. Thanks.
>>
> 
> So you're saying you want to change how email works?
> 
> The 'problem' you're describing applies to just about any mail client
> that an end user has to configure. Desktop or otherwise.
> 
> Of course, we could always come up with a way to embed a digital
> signature on emails so we could verify identities. That way we could
> ensure that messages are indeed from who they claim to be and that
> content has been unmodified. Actually, if both parties exchanged keys
> prior to the email, then we could encrypt the entire message. Of
> course this would rely on some fairly advanced cryptography, but the
> resulting privacy and identity verification would be pretty good.
> 
> Oh... wait...
> 
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> J.
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