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I like everything. Well, almost everything: The "View raw message" feature exposes way too much information about your contributors - including their email, sm
by beagle3 8y ago
I like everything.
Well, almost everything: The "View raw message" feature exposes way too much information about your contributors - including their email, smtp client, ip, and a bunch of other things. I understand and appreciate the usefulness, but as a contributor I don't usually expect my details to become that public.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoThe IP is the IP of your mail server, which is a lot less private (you can derive that just by doing a DNS lookup on your hostname). The email address is explicitly exposed, your email is not private in git repos either, and it's important that people are able to get in touch with you. It's a mailing list! I'm glad that you like everything else :)
- beagle3 8y agoMany email servers report the IP of the incoming SMTP connection when you use a client (e.g. mutt, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, or Outlook) as an "X-Client-IP" or similar raw header; often also the envelope "from", which may be different than the message "from" which is the only one usually shown. It's not that IPs are very private - sending an email to someone often tells a lot about you. But having all that info publicly scrapable seems unexpected to me.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoThat seems fair. I can probably strip unnecessary headers from incoming emails. https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/60 https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/lists.sr.ht/60
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