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Re: e-mail address mining tool?


From: Tomasz Nidecki <tonid () hakin9 org>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:09:44 +0100

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Thursday, November 10, 2005, 12:26:48 PM, James wrote:

It is also worth considering that companies will not necessarily
assign employees e-mail addresses matching their usernames - there
is, in fact, quite a strong argument to be made for assigning people
usernames exclusively for authentication and making their e-mail
address entirely different. A company might, for instance, give Joe
Bloggs the username Bloggs01J, and make his e-mail address
Joe.Bloggs () example org - and simply don't setup a mailbox or alias
for Bloggs01J () example org (or, only accept mail to Bloggs01J
internally, and only setup the Joe.Bloggs address for your external
mail domain).

... and it's also worth considering that many companies use solutions
such as vmailmgr or vpopmail, where there is actually one system
account per domain or per mail server.

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Tomasz Nidecki, Sekr. Redakcji / Managing Editor
hakin9 magazine            http://www.hakin9.org
mailto:tonid () hakin9 org      jid:tonid () tonid net

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