[plug] PLUG headers revealing email addresses

Steve Boak sboak at westnet.com.au
Tue Mar 4 22:54:12 UTC 2014


On 04/03/14 10:46, Leon Wright wrote:
> Krystin,
>
> I'll wait for a Westnet person to respond, but thankyou from the Admin 
> team!
>
> Regards,
>
> Leon
>
> --
> DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
>
> # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
> Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Krystin Dix <krystindix at lothar.id.au 
> <mailto:krystindix at lothar.id.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hey all,
>
>     I have confirmed with my engineers that this was a custom rule
>     that was set to assist some domains with catchall@ mailbox using a
>     pop connector to add the X-Envelope-To field so the pop connector
>     can ascertain which user to assign the mail to. I have been told
>     this has been removed and should be functioning as per normal now.
>

Confirmed fixed. X-Envelope-To now only has my email address in it, as 
it should be.

Thanks Krystin and your team. It's good to have iiNet using your 
initiative and picking up issues like this and sorting them :-)

Thanks

Steve

>     Any issues let me know.
>
>     Regards,
>     Krystin Dix
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* plug [plug-bounces at plug.org.au
>     <mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au>] on behalf of Leon Wright
>     [techman83 at gmail.com <mailto:techman83 at gmail.com>]
>     *Sent:* Thursday, 27 February 2014 11:36 AM
>     *To:* Steve Boak
>     *Cc:* plug at plug.org.au <mailto:plug at plug.org.au>
>
>     *Subject:* Re: [plug] PLUG headers revealing email addresses
>
>     Nice work investigating this James/Krystin. Keep us posted on how
>     it pans out. If the mailing list needs some tweaking to avoid it
>     occurring, I'll discuss it with the admin team.
>
>     Leon
>
>     --
>     DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
>
>     # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
>     Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!
>
>
>     On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Steve Boak <sboak at westnet.com.au
>     <mailto:sboak at westnet.com.au>> wrote:
>
>         On 26/02/14 20:16, Krystin Dix wrote:
>
>             Hey Steve,
>
>             I will pass this on to the guys responsible and see what
>             they say. (I currently work for iiNet / Westnet Hosting).
>
>             It is interesting to see that it is done this way. If you
>             wouldn't mind forwarding me off list the exact headers
>             received to kdix at staff.iinet.net.au
>             <mailto:kdix at staff.iinet.net.au> and I will come back here
>             with a response.
>
>
>         Done
>
>
>             Thanks
>             Krystin Dix
>
>             -----Original Message-----
>             From: plug [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au
>             <mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au>] On Behalf Of Steve Boak
>             Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 6:58 PM
>             To: plug at plug.org.au <mailto:plug at plug.org.au>
>             Subject: Re: [plug] PLUG headers revealing email addresses
>
>             On 26/02/14 14:37, James Henstridge wrote:
>
>                 On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Steve Boak
>                 <sboak at westnet.com.au <mailto:sboak at westnet.com.au>>
>                 wrote:
>
>                     Hi
>
>                     I just happened to be looking through the source
>                     of a plug list
>                     message and saw this in the headers (and yes, my
>                     address  is one of
>                     them)
>
>                     X-Envelope-To: bxxx at westnet.com.au
>                     <mailto:bxxx at westnet.com.au>, bxxx at westnet.com.au
>                     <mailto:bxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     cxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:cxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     gxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:gxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     gxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:gxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     jxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:jxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     mxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:mxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     mxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:mxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     nxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:nxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     rxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:rxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     sxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:sxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     vxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:vxxx at westnet.com.au>,
>                     wxxx at westnet.com.au <mailto:wxxx at westnet.com.au>
>
>                     I've anonymised them of course, but interesting to
>                     note that it's
>                     only westnet addresses showing up here. Is this an
>                     artefact of the
>                     way the list mailer groups it's send list?
>
>                     Can these be hidden in some way, or is that just
>                     the way the list works?
>
>                 Hi Steve,
>
>                 I don't see that header in any of the PLUG messages in
>                 my archive.
>                 Given that the addresses you've listed are all
>                 @westnet.com.au <http://westnet.com.au>, is it
>                 possible that the header is being added by your ISP?
>                  The ordering of
>                 the header relative to the "Received" headers might
>                 give a clue about
>                 whether this is the case.
>
>                 When sending bulk mail (such as mailing list traffic),
>                 it isn't
>                 uncommon to group the delivery in this way to cut down
>                 on traffic.
>                 There may be an option in mailman to deliver messages
>                 independently,
>                 but it is really the ISP that is leaking the
>                 information to you.
>
>                 James.
>
>             Hi James
>
>             The adding of the X-Envelope-To header with multiple
>             westnet addresses started on the 1st of February (this
>             year), and every email I have received directly from the
>             plug list since then has it. Emails which are addressed to
>             me and cc'ed to the plug list (such as your email above)
>             don't, even though they are delivered to the same addresses.
>
>             Thanks for the tip about the ordering of headers - the
>             extract below seems to indicate that it is iinet's mail
>             server at fault.
>
>             X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,527,1389715200";
>             d="scan'208";a="185453217"
>             X-Envelope-To: bxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:bxxx at westnet.com.au>, bxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:bxxx at westnet.com.au>, cxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:cxxx at westnet.com.au>, gxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:gxxx at westnet.com.au>, gxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:gxxx at westnet.com.au>, jxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:jxxx at westnet.com.au>, mxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:mxxx at westnet.com.au>, mxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:mxxx at westnet.com.au>, nxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:nxxx at westnet.com.au>, rxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:rxxx at westnet.com.au>, sxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:sxxx at westnet.com.au>, vxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:vxxx at westnet.com.au>, wxxx at westnet.com.au
>             <mailto:wxxx at westnet.com.au>
>             Received: from unknown (HELO power.plug.org.au
>             <http://power.plug.org.au>) ([54.252.97.56]) by
>             icp-osb-irony-in14.iinet.net.au
>             <http://icp-osb-irony-in14.iinet.net.au> with ESMTP; 23
>             Feb 2014 10:51:27 +0800
>             Received: from power.plug.org.au
>             <http://power.plug.org.au> (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by
>             power.plug.org.au <http://power.plug.org.au> (Postfix)
>             with ESMTP id 9D0965D489; Sun, 23 Feb 2014
>             02:54:04 +0000 (UTC)
>             X-Original-To: plug at plug.org.au <mailto:plug at plug.org.au>
>
>             I'll approach Westnet for an explanation.
>
>             Steve
>
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>
>
>         -- 
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>         Engin VOIP number (08) 6461 6187 (local number in Perth)
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>


-- 
Steve Boak, (08) 9756 0662, P.O. Box 240, Nannup, WA 6275
Engin VOIP number (08) 6461 6187 (local number in Perth)
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