Is the info that's put into the mail headers a security risk?

damainman · Sep 19, 2004

Today while testing out some emails, i noticed that the users Cpanel account name is inserted into the headers.

I sent a email from SquirrelMail on my server, to a aol account. When looking in the header i noticed this:

Received: from CPANELACCOUNTNAME by server.mydomain.net with local (Exim 4.42)

Wouldn't inserting the account name used to log into cpanel create a security risk, or is it not that serious?

elleryjh · Sep 19, 2004

Well it exposes the user name, so a cracker is one step closer to brute forcing on that account, but tracing spam is made much easier with this info.

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information needed for .cpanel.yml

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information needed for .cpanel.yml

SOLVED Hide os information on top of WHM?

Domain contact information changed, not by me

SOLVED cPanel plugin - access account package info?

Cannot Update var/cpanel/sysinfo.config

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