From: Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 03:50:20 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: JavaScript to grab email
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Mike Rose wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:21:31 -0500 (EST), "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com> said:
> 
> >On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Mike Rose wrote:
> 
> >>Changing the email address known to netscape doesn't help.  Your email
> >>address is in the message sent, regardless of what netscape thinks
> >>your identity is.
> 
> >I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.  The Javascript program
> >uses Netscape to send the e-mail.  The only way Netscape knows your actual
> >e-mail address is if you tell Netscape what it is.
> 
> Netscape doesn't need to know your email address.  Your email address
> is put into the headers by sendmail.  Netscape will make a "from"
> header of what you claim in the "indentity" field, but your real
> address is also in the headers - "sender:" in mine.
> 
I was under the impression that netscape doesn't run sendmail at all;
it speaks SMTP directly.  In that case, changing your email adress
in the options should suffice.

However, if you do this, actually sending mail and news from netscape
will get messed up, won't it?

   - Ian