exclude IP address from sent mail
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(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, defect)
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(Reporter: anuragg, Unassigned)
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(Keywords: privacy)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
Thunderbird version, OSX - v 68.9.
Mails sent thru SMTP google have details to local IP address as well as Internet IP address.
1)send a mail with google smtp.
2)open gmail sent folders,
3)check full headers of mail sent.
Actual results:
local IP as well as Internet IP is visible in headers.
Expected results:
This is not the case with web gmail, which doesn't send any IP information to sender.
This should work in thunderbird same as Web gmail. No IP address info should be sent. It's insecure.
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Updated•4 years ago
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Are we providing the IP address, or is google getting it on its own?
Privacy issue?
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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The header is added by google, and this common practice for servers to do. If you need the IP to be private, you need to use a VPN.
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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The mail header is not having IP, when Gmail Web is used, included only when Thunderbird uses SMTP.google.com.
But are we saying that this is server behaviour to add client info/Ip address, when they don't do so on their web interface ?
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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The web interface doesn't directly use the SMTP server - that's done internally who knows how. I would guess convenience? The info is really meant for debugging purposes and for internal usage they don't need it?
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