On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 14:50 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 14:14 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > > I'll probably get told off for asking, but it does need someone > > with a > > knowledge of evo to answer. > > I getting some threatening spam , > > Is it along the lines of "we've hacked into your camera and got the > pictures. Pay us or we'll make them public." If so, ignore it. > > > the last part of the header looks like this:- > > > > Date: 4 Oct 2018 17:43:38 +0200 (04/10/18 16:43:38) > > From: rich...@g8jvm.com > > X-Priority: 3 > > Message-Id: <666322984.201810041...@g8jvm.com> > > To: toeakveir <rich...@g8jvm.com> > > Subject: [SPAM] Account Issue > > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp-850" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > X-Spam-Prev-Subject: Account Issue > > X-Evolution-Source: 1455038713.12053.2@richard-Inspiron-N5030 > > > > Now that last line after the @ is actually the linux name of this > > laptop > > Is the number before it the index of the received mail or the index > > of > > the sent mail. > > Neither. It's the internal account UUID of where the mail is stored. > It's never exposed to the outside world and is only present when you > view the mail in Evolution. That exact same string will be present in > all emails on that account. > > If you look in ~/.cache/evolution/mail you will see the same strings. > > > Looking at sent mails that format is used on outgoing mail, is it > > also > > used on incoming as well.? > > I'm trying to determine if who ever is spoofing my email address > > has > > got the computer name from mail I've sent to someone or a list, or > > from > > this laptop with malware, but I haven't found anything. > > Hence asking those with an expert knowledge of how evolution handle > > mail. > > As I said, neither. It's an internal identifier added by Evolution - > it's not even stored in the cached email, it's added by Evolution on > the fly as it displays the mail. > > P. > > info/evolution-list Thanks Pete I will be ignoring it, its the second batch, quoting a very old password. As that id is internal the laptop has not been exposed. Back in to reading mail mode, Evo 3.28.5 is working fine , so no problems.
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