On Monday, September 25, 2017 3:41 AM, Milan Crha <mc...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 17:36 -0400, d18jf9...@use.startmail.com wrote: >> Sent from evolution: >> Received: from [external IP] ([external IP:port] >> helo=myhost.mydomain.ext) >> >> Sent from thunderbird: >> Received: from [external IP] ([external IP:port] helo=[local IP]) > Hi, > what is better on local IP (which can be a public IP too),
local IP is better. > than using > a local host name, which might not be accessible (resolved) from > the outside? Is there related any shame on the chosen computer name? > > I can understand the need to "stay anonymous" for spammers or the like, > but regular good citizens might not have a problem with this, maybe? I would like not to discuss anything other then technical details of bug topic which are clear and simple: "unwanted information disclosure". Simplest example is when a corporate user sends an email using public email server like yahoo/google/aol etc, their fully qualified host name may show up in helo part which is not always what they may want. > Looking around, the SMTP transport uses the name only if > g_resolver_lookup_by_address() returns anything for the address > returned by g_socket_connection_get_local_address(). > There is no option to skip this lookup. I strongly disagree with this statement because thunderbird does not do host name lookup and always uses IP address in helo part. According to gnome bugzilla there was a bug 702703 with exactly the same unwanted information disclosure complain and was fixed by you, Milan, four years ago. Regards, Josh. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
