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Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1)

2016-10-15 12:51:09
Hello Ralph,

this likely goes to you in private only (via News)

Ralph Corderoy <ralph(_at_)inputplus(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
 |kre wrote:
 |> Rather, I usually delete [X-Mailer] as I consider it no-one else's
 |> business which software I use
 |
 |Yes, I'd want to turn it off from that point of view too.  I use mail(1)
 |for short internal emails, and here it's provided by package s-nail
 |which had a series of different core-dump bugs that I triggered.  It
 |quite possibly has buffer overflows  on receiving and rendering emails

Granted.  This is indeed not true.

 |too, and puts out `User-Agent: mail v14.8.12' into every email, like
 |pinning a target to the user's back.  :-)

This is a good suggestion, i should have introduced *user-agent*
just like mutt(1) has, instead of extending *stealthmua* à la "set
stealthmua=noagent" or -Sstealthmua=noagent!
Ciao!

--steffen

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