[pmmail-list] PMMail and network security issue.
Gene Gough
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 09:08:23 -0400
Why in the world does Blueprint want to send that information in any case? I have a DSL server in the house
and it runs SYGATE so we are pretty much protected but the idea that my e-mail client is sending information
that is not required really bothers me.
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 00:04:24 -0400, Rich wrote:
=>My impression from BluePrint at that time was that it would be changed. Well, after installing the 2.20.2300
beta3 program
=>and sending myself a mail, I see they did changed it. It now not only sends the actual network computer
name but also
=>the network workgroup name! This is not a change for the better! To my knowledge it is specified nowhere
in the RFC's
=>that the network computer and workgroup names have to be sent along with an e-mail? Also to my
knowledge, no other
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