On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 11:22 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > The X-Evolution-* headers are not exposed to the outside world - > certainly not on recent versions. Some (perhaps all?) of the X- > Evolution-* headers don't even really exist, they are inserted by > Evolution when the mail is displayed and are not present in the > stored emails.
Hi, that's true. There is a set of "helper" headers used by Evolution itself when sending mails. Those can be visible in the Outbox folder and they are removed before the message is passed to the transport service. It's not that obvious when the Outbox folder is skipped, which is the default behavior for some time now (the message is sent immediately when the Send is clicked in the composer window). Such headers are X-Evolution-Identity (the From account UID), X-Evolution-Fcc (the sent folder), X-Evolution-Transport (the transport service UID, usually associated with the From account). Those UIDs used to look like an email address, containing the "localhost". Newly created UIDs look like SHA256 hash, thus they do not expose anything from the local machine (some users consider it a private information). The X-Evolution-Account header used to be used in the past and it contains the same value as the X-Evolution-Identity. I suppose the headers are left in the message only because: On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 16:04 -0800, Van Snyder via evolution-list wrote: > My outgoing mail isn't sent directly from my own computer. It's sent > from an smtp server. which I understand as the messages are stored into some specific Outbox (not the Evolution's) and some other server/sendmail/script picks messages from there and pushes them into the world. I cannot imagine other reason why that particular header would be left in the outgoing message, especially if evolution itself would connect to the SMTP server (+/- bugs in the code). I can be wrong, though. Bye, Milan _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list