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Re: JavaScript to grab email



>>>>> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:21:31 -0500 (EST), "Mark M." <[email protected]> said:

>On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Mike Rose wrote:

>>Changing the email address known to netscape doesn't help.  Your email
>>address is in the message sent, regardless of what netscape thinks
>>your identity is.

>I'm not sure I understand what you are saying.  The Javascript program
>uses Netscape to send the e-mail.  The only way Netscape knows your actual
>e-mail address is if you tell Netscape what it is.  

Netscape doesn't need to know your email address.  Your email address
is put into the headers by sendmail.  Netscape will make a "from"
header of what you claim in the "indentity" field, but your real
address is also in the headers - "sender:" in mine.

Mike