Anno domini 2022 Thu, 14 Apr 13:18:47 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:

On Thursday 14 April 2022 13:05:16 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

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Hi all!

I just noticed: When I "reply to list", then kmail does not use the email address I specified to be used for answers in this folder. Does that happen to other's, too? My kmail is version 4:14.1.0~s274-0debian12.0.0+10~a, I am quite sure it worked on 14.0.1.

Nik

I created templates, and tried to create one specifically for the TDE users mailing list, which usually works okay.

In this case, when I hit "reply", my "To" address reads: TDE Users users@trinitydesktop.org

I hate it, it just append again: wrong sender address :(

I just tried: Kmail uses the last used mail address, no matter what I settings I have for the folder. It does not use the default email address, even when writing a mail from scratch. At least it does so here.

But sometimes, when I see replies to other people, or other people's replies to me, it will have both the TDE users address, and my own personal email (which I would prefer *not* to be so).

That's what I get when I hit "Reply" (R). "Reply to list" (L) only uses the lists email address.

Not that I mind anybody here having my address, but I don't like unknown entities "out there" harvesting my email address along with others. That's how one gets marked as a spammer in the first place: somebody gets our addresses, then uses it for spam. Of course, they would have to compromise those accounts, and maybe a really good password, encryption, and all that stuff will help; but I have got spammed from people that I know very well, and they had no idea that their account was being misused by somebody else for spam. So it is possible that emails get sent out using our email addresses, and it has nothing to do with what we ourselves do.

Oh, that kind of spam is still around?

Nik

Bill

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On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

Anno domini 2022 Thu, 14 Apr 13:18:47 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:

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.... but I have got spammed from people that I know very well, and they had no idea that their account was being misused by somebody else for spam.

I think you mean you receive emails from forged email accounts. Crackers gather addressbooks from account they crack into at AOL, Yahoo, etc., and then sell or rent the cracked account's local-parta and domain email address along with all that was in the addressbook to spammers. (-: Is the Millions CD even a 'thing' anymore? :-)

I see such forged email 'from' my fool brother-in-law (still using AOL) frequently. A simile inspection of the headers would show the email never passed through any AOL servers. His Windows Pee-Cee is cracked on a somewhat frequent schedule. sigh....

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So it is possible that emails get sent out using our email addresses, and it has nothing to do with what we ourselves do.

Oh, that kind of spam is still around?

Most assuredly. My email account is a wild-card email account. I see incoming email directed to all sorts of local-part names. I've come to believe quite a few local-name 'fabrications" come from folks that want to sign up at a website, at a conference, at a retail store for some reason but do not wish to give out their real email addy. And, too, I see local-part construction from just dragging a finger randomly across the keyboard.

My ISP uses my spam folder as input to his system-wide spamassassin filtering. He finds it quite useful. :-)

Be safe out there, Jonesy