Comments on: miniMail: A mail-sending widget http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/31/minimail-a-mail-sending-widget/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » miniMail 1.1 http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/31/minimail-a-mail-sending-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » miniMail 1.1 Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:12:58 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=288#comment-451 [...] In an earlier entry on miniMail, I reported comments that it might be used to harvest email addresses or for some other unsavoury purpose. [...] [...] In an earlier entry on miniMail, I reported comments that it might be used to harvest email addresses or for some other unsavoury purpose. [...]

]]> By: Ari Smith http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/31/minimail-a-mail-sending-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Ari Smith Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:27:41 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=288#comment-445 Hey, it's great that you found our widget. Anyway, I can assure you that miniMail is not malicious in any way. Since the code is open source by nature, you are free to verify this yourself. However, it does make use of the PHP mail() function, and can be misused in unethical and damaging ways. We absolutely do not condone usage of the widget in this way. There's a disclaimer in the widget package if you're curious. P.S. ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú This does have some interesting and legal uses, though?¢‚Ǩ‚Äúperfect for getting around web mail servers and stuff like that. Hey, it’s great that you found our widget. Anyway, I can assure you that miniMail is not malicious in any way. Since the code is open source by nature, you are free to verify this yourself. However, it does make use of the PHP mail() function, and can be misused in unethical and damaging ways. We absolutely do not condone usage of the widget in this way. There’s a disclaimer in the widget package if you’re curious.

P.S. ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú This does have some interesting and legal uses, though?¢‚Ǩ‚Äúperfect for getting around web mail servers and stuff like that.

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/31/minimail-a-mail-sending-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Tim Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:18:50 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=288#comment-321 OK. Fair enough. But couldn't you just add the individual address as alias to an account, as described <a href="http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/09/18/managing-aliases-in-apple-mail/" rel="nofollow">here</a>? OK. Fair enough.

But couldn’t you just add the individual address as alias to an account, as described here?

]]> By: David Shirley http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/31/minimail-a-mail-sending-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-316 David Shirley Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:21:35 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=288#comment-316 You asked "Why?"... I can think of at lease one very good use for this. I use a different email address for each site, mailing list or service is sign up for, allowing me to trace at the source of at least some of the spam I get. However, when I want to send an email using these addresses, it's a right pain because Mail.app doesn't allow one to use a custom "From:" address. *If* this isn't a scam to harvest email addresses, this could be very useful for me... Up until now, I have been telnetting in to my SMTP server and doing it manually, which isn't exactly user friendly! Dave You asked “Why?”… I can think of at lease one very good use for this. I use a different email address for each site, mailing list or service is sign up for, allowing me to trace at the source of at least some of the spam I get. However, when I want to send an email using these addresses, it’s a right pain because Mail.app doesn’t allow one to use a custom “From:” address.

*If* this isn’t a scam to harvest email addresses, this could be very useful for me… Up until now, I have been telnetting in to my SMTP server and doing it manually, which isn’t exactly user friendly!

Dave

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/31/minimail-a-mail-sending-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Tim Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:33:16 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=288#comment-313 Sure. You'll get no arguments from me on that one ;-) An odd thing for a developer to put in the product description, don't you think? Sure. You’ll get no arguments from me on that one ;-)

An odd thing for a developer to put in the product description, don’t you think?

]]> By: Eric Cholet http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/31/minimail-a-mail-sending-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Eric Cholet Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:29:55 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=288#comment-312 Whether the email account supports POP access is irrelevant to sending mail. Whether the email account supports POP access is irrelevant to sending mail.

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