On Jan 23, Carl B. Constantine [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > ing Mutt 1.3.25 at home on Debian Linux (unstable) and 1.3.25 here at > work (Solaris 8 x86) I noticed something a little different. On my home > version, I see an extra "header" called Mix: which says "no chain > defined". Here at work, I don't see said header. I'm using the same > config file on both, so I'm wondering what I've missed to give me that > value on my home machine. any ideas? > > what is that header for? Does this have to do with "mixmaster" (which > isn't defined on my work machine but is in the Debian version" I don't > see anything in a cursory review of the docs on the web site (but > admittedly, I didn't look in depth and am still going through them).
Yes, it's a reference to mixmaster. Remailers use chains of mailers to hide the real source of a message. Your home machine has it because debian's version is apparently compiled with mixmaster support, while your work version is not.
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