JavaScript to grab email

Mark M. markm at voicenet.com
Wed Feb 21 01:06:37 PST 1996


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On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Mike Rose wrote:

> >>>>> On Tue, 20 Feb 96 14:40:30 EST, Mike Rose <mrose at stsci.edu> said:
>
> >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.
>
> Sorry for the imprecision here.  I was referring to Netscape 2.0 on
> unix here.  Changing the email address known to netscape is
> insufficient for non-root users on unix systems, because sendmail will
> put your real address into the headers.
>

AFAIK, Netscape does not use sendmail directly to send mail, but instead
contacts a user specified SMTP server and the e-mail is sent from there.
If you set the SMTP server to a fake value, or just delete the field,
the Javascript program will not work.  Of course, you won't be able to
use Netscape mail capabilities either.

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