[Mimedefang] Removing read receipts for particular account.

Mark Suter suter at zwitterion.humbug.org.au
Thu May 6 10:00:08 EDT 2004


Prashanth,

> Can any one help me in how to remove read receipts for a particular email id?

Automaticaly generated emails such as return receipts, delivery notices,
read receipts and out of office replies provide a wealth of information
to a potential attacker, for example,

    * operating systems and versions
    * email server software and versions
    * email client software and versions
    * email architecture

Here are some headers to drop on incoming emails to prevent requests for
a receipts.  Please let me know if you are aware of other headers.

    Disposition-Notification-To:
    Receipt-Requested-To:
    Confirm-Reading-To:
    MDRcpt-To:
    MDSend-Notifications-To:
    Smtp-Rcpt-To:
    Return-Receipt-To:

Also consider dropping outbound NDN notices, that is, email where

    * From address is the null address
    * Small, say under 5000-10000 bytes
    * The subject contains one of the following (again, suggections?)
	DELIVERY FAILURE:
	Undeliverable:
	Undeliverable message
	Delivery Status Notification
	Returned mail:

Limiting actions to users or domains has been covered in many times on
this list - search the list (look at email headers for the URIs).

Yours sincerely,

Mark Suter                        Miju Systems http://www.miju.com.au/
Phone: +61 411 262 316            PO Box 176, Corinda Q 4075, Australia
Email: mark.suter at miju.com.au     ABN 48 065 548 496
                                  Fax: +61 7 3278 2343



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