MUAs we use

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Fri Jun 19 07:54:53 UTC 2020


On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:33:47 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf at riseup.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 08:07:15 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> >	You should try looking at the X-Mailer header instead of
> >	User-Agent.
> 
> The way we could use 'curl' and fake a browser User-Agent name, we also
> could use (even GUI) MUAs to fake the X-Mailer header.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Claws    > Configuration > Edit accounts... > select an account > Send >
> [ ] unckeck 'Add user agent header'
> [x] check   'Add user-defined header'
> 
> This is done quite often.

	Oh sure it's very dirty data, but if you're going to analyse it
analyse the right bits.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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