-dsr- (not a dog)5d ago

Two nights ago my spouse told me that she had spent hours explaining to our elder spawn how to see and then decode SMTP headers.

Me: "He's never looked for himself? We have failed as parents."

So I will talk with the younger spawn about that. Can't have people growing up ignorant.

Nothing is magic, and if anybody tries to hide what they are doing from you, you can be sure that they are up to no good.

#email #sysadmin

Show threadChris [list of emoji]5d ago

@dashdsrdash

I mean, you don't want them to learn about it on the streets.

Show thread-dsr- (not a dog)5d ago

@suetanvil

...the elder one is taking a "cyber security" course.

But he's had email.accounts since days of his birth. Never looked at the headers.

Magic.

Show threadUnix Herder
@dashdsrdash @suetanvil Doesn’t help that almost all email clients these days do everything they can to hide them from users (which makes it really awkward when you need to get them to send them to you because you need them to diagnose their email problem).
Apr 2 at 7:23pmWeb
Show threadChris [list of emoji]3d ago

@hippiegunnut @dashdsrdash

Claws Mail is still being maintained, FWIW. I've reached the age where I want most of my day-to-day software to Just Work*, but I feel like if younger me had switched to a GUI mail client instead of just staying with mutt on a remote shell session, that's the one that would have suited me best.

* LOL