Email masking

[Adam Gilstrap]

I agree that it does help in troubleshooting but I was concerned about
exposure of my internal network setup along with machine names being sent
out over the net.  While this doesn't directly aid in security it would make
it more difficult for someone to find out my internal network setup with
this information not being broadcasted over the wire on email transmissions.



Adam Gilstrap
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:28 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Email masking
Importance: High

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:07:50AM -0400, Adam Gilstrap wrote:
> I would like to be able to mask my internal network information(i.e. 
> ip addresses, computer names) from being sent in email headers.

You really don't want to do this.  As a sysadmin with about 20 years
experience looking at e-mail headers, the information is absolutely critical
in solving many issues, and you do not gain a darn thing ripping them out.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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