> Without giving any message/sender/recipient details away (that the > sending mail admin can't already see) they could give the ID of the > message transaction
That almost sounds like it would make too much sense. > Or, maybe, it's because Microsoft's lawyers know that their systems are > a bit dodgy/arbitrary/random and don't want to risk all the problems > being discovered? Er... yea... nevermind. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 9:39 AM Paul Smith via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > On 29/06/2020 13:08, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote: > > > On the advice of their lawyers Microsoft doesn’t share that > > information with senders. > > > > And I understand the reasons for that. But... can't you see how this > > turns into a "he said / she said" argument? > > Without giving any message/sender/recipient details away (that the > sending mail admin can't already see) they could give the ID of the > message transaction > > Their servers respond to the message with something like this: > > 250 2.6.0 <messageid> [InternalId=1112312312313, > Hostname=DB8EUR06HT227.eop-eur06.prod.protection.outlook.com] 1117027 > bytes in 0.520, 2096.624 KB/sec Queued mail for delivery -> 250 2.1.5 > > So, they could easily give out the "internalid" & "hostname" values > without divulging any personal information about either the message > sender or recipient or content, so there is no GDPR or data protection > breach there. If the person they tell those to can use them to identify > the message details, then that person could already have seen the > message details. If not, then it tells them nothing. > > Or, maybe, it's because Microsoft's lawyers know that their systems are > a bit dodgy/arbitrary/random and don't want to risk all the problems > being discovered? > > -- > Paul > > > -- > > > Paul Smith Computer Services > Tel: 01484 855800 > Vat No: GB 685 6987 53 > > Sign up for news & updates at http://www.pscs.co.uk/go/subscribe > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop >
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