+-- On 29082002 12:05:50 +0000, Will Yardley uttered: | krjw wrote: | > | > The my_hdr command is handy, but appears to allow only the addition of | > headers that mutt doesn't already add to mail. From what I've seen over | > the past 2 days of using mutt, if my_hdr is used to add a header that | > mutt already adds, said header is simply added twice. For example, I | > tried this with the User-Agent header (I don't like version numbers | > showing up, although nuking the version# might break things?) and it | > showed up twice anyway. So, any intuitive way to do this sort of thing? | | wouldn't 'unset user_agent' work? (what's wrong with version numbers | anyway)?
Doh! Yep, that'd do it. *sigh* As for version numbers, there's nothing wrong with them unless they are advertised to potentially malicious users. Assuming a given version of a given MUA has a known security hole, sending a mail via that MUA with a header containing version info is just begging for trouble. Call it paranoia. In general it's undersirable for network-aware software (whether an MUA, daemon -- like httpd or sshd -- whatever) to advertise its version # to untrusted users. The Internet is not as friendly as it used to be. Thanks for the feedback. krjw. | -- | Will Yardley | input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > |
