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If that were true, why did he specifically ask for help to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails". source: reddit

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > > Yes it's pretty clear that the content of the email is not to be adjusted, just the To/From fields. > If that were true, why did he specifically ask for help to "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails". What your quote said he asked for help to do is exactly what GP suggested was the only thing he was trying to do. So, what you say he asked is exactly what you'd expect if he was trying to do only what GP suggested.
  • threepipeproblm 10y ago
    Oh right I had that exactly backwards... I apologize, it's been long day. It does make me wonder why this matters, though. Ripping the to/from from an export would be trivially easy. He wanted to strip it from the server for some reason. So that doesn't make me feel better... isn't it what you would do to prevent emails from being discovered. I mean if they wanted to sanitize files after export, it's just bulk search and replace, right?
    • dragonwriter 10y ago
      > Ripping the to/from from an export would be trivially easy. He wanted to strip it from the server for some reason. He wanted to strip it from a file that remained otherwise in the same format as was stored on the server; perhaps it was expected that there would be an electronic release in that format rather than plain text, perhaps he just had a suboptimal preparation-for-release workflow (redact the mailbox copy -> export as text) rather than the reverse.