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We had submissions from two different Soylentils on this story about an IT worker for the company which managed Hillary Clinton's email server apparently looking for help on how to wipe email addresses.
Clinton's IT contractor sought help removing or replacing to/from addresses on archived emails
The Gateway Pundit reports:
An employee with Platte River Networks, the company in charge of Hillary Clinton's home server, who was granted immunity from Obama's Department of Justice in their investigation of Clinton, reportedly asked for assistance in July 2014 from Reddit users on how to purge emails and how to strip VIP's email address from "a bunch of archived emails":
"Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file. Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out. I am not sure if something like this is possible with PowerShell, or exporting all of the emails to MSG and doing find/replaces with a batch processing program of some sort. Does anyone have experience with something like this, and/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?"
Hillary Clinton IT worker asked Reddit how to tamper with email record
Paul Combetta, the IT guy who used BleachBit to wipe email servers for Hillary Clinton, went on Reddit in July 2014 and asked this question:
Remove or replace to/from address on archived emails?
Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file. Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out.
Paul Combatta was given immunity by the Justice Department.
If you check the timeline you find that in July 2014 there were outstanding FOIA requests but Congress had not yet subpoenaed the email server.
One of the commenters on the Reddit thread said: "If there was a feature in Exchange that allowed this, it could result in major legal issues."
(Score: 3, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:40PM
You sure you have the correct RFC? Should've pointed to RFC5233, as a quick search for "plus addressing" turns up in the Wikipedia entry on email addresses. There is no mention anywhere in RFC2822 of plus addressing, tagging, or sub-addressing.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday September 20 2016, @10:30PM
I guess the point was that the plus sign is a valid character in an email address, no matter whether the mail server interprets it specially or not.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday September 22 2016, @03:58AM
All I was trying to point out is that "+" is a valid character in email addresses if used before the "@" symbol. What the destination email server does with it isn't defined, and, as a website developer, you should not care about it.
There is no RFC for plus addressing and Exchange doesn't support it. Just about every other MTA supports it, including Gmail.