Grüß Dich, Russell!

Am 12 Feb 07, Russell Tiedt schrieb an Kai Richter:

 KR>> I do not understand your problem.

I still don't. ;)

 RT> The address as it comes from the originating system is a full valid
 RT> e-mail address,

From: email
To: ???  (you)

 RT> around here bandwidth is still limited and very expensive, so I am
 RT> not too happy about sending out "naked" e-mail addresses to the
 RT> world,

Understand. You don't want to give your e-mail address to the world.
You want to hide your e-mail address.

 RT> not if I can avoid it, using some sort of a translation table here,

Where to do the translation? The point of view is the message.

The sending system, that one with the "to: (you)" that you want
to change, already know your address, if not, it can not send mail to you.

That is why i don't understand your wish.
You want to avoid something that had already happend.

And you want a reverse translation for outging mail.
The result is that there are no changes for the outside world.

 RT> No reason as it should do anything with my msgbase at all, when the
 RT> msgs get scanned out the get piped to a filter that reads the table
 RT> and does the required translation, and the same when replies are
 RT> tossed, they are piped to the filter, then tossed to the msgbase ... ,
 RT> a schlep, but might be required
 RT> ... :-((

And is useless because the sending system already know your address.

 RT>>> and then when return mail/replies arrive, change the user name
 RT>>> back to "rtiedt{at}mango.zw"

 KR>> "change back", then that user name is correct? If yes, you are
 KR>> manipulating "in transit" mail and you put a time
bomb into your
 KR>> msgbase.

 RT> The msgbase is none the wiser ... , this has to be done before and
 RT> after the msgs get tossed/scanned ...

The only result is that you hide your real address to all users of your
msgbase. Is that what you want to do?

Are you sharing your msgbase?

 RT>>> when outgoing packets to node are scaned out?
 RT>>> This is for multi-user usage, not just for a single user ...

Your msgbase is used for multi-user usage?
Friends and family? Or open to the world?
(you said to the world at the top of this mail)

Tschuess

Kai

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