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MAIL: Using "nobody"
[email protected] wrote:
Using "nobody" as a remailer is pretty interesting ;) the only problem
being you have to be root or be allowed to choose your own username.
> Imagine remailers also had addresses like "[email protected]",
> and "[email protected]". Now if someone doing an internet wire-tap
> sees mail to "[email protected]" it is hard for him to
> tell if this means:
> a) It will just end up in /dev/null like it does on 99% of the machines
> b) furmint is another remailer
> c) someone on furmint gets mail as "nobody"
I don't understand: why can't the somebody do a telnet to port 25 and
"vrfy nobody" to see if it points to /dev/null? Or find out if mail
is piped to a script?
> So it would be nice if sites with remailers would set the "nobody"
> alias to point to their remailer to start this convention. Assuming
Again, a pretty good suggestion, but I don't think most remailer
operators can do this even if they wanted to. I know I couldn't have
with remailers I've run in the past.
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