[Bug 141421] New: Automatically remove email addresses from body text

[Dotan Cohen]

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           Summary: Automatically remove email addresses from body text
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.9.5
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: kde dotancohen com


Version:           1.9.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

In the rare instances where one must FWD an email that was forwarded to him, the email body contains the email addresses of all those to whom the email was addressed in the past. Forwarding an email like this is bad because all the future recipricants will then see all the previous email addresses, which leads to the proliferation of spam.

I propose a tool that would replace all email addresses in the email body with a text string ("-- --", "ADDRESS REMOVED", or similar) that indicates that there email addresses had been removed.


Example:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: m.cohen oxford com
> To: j.cohen harvard com
> Sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Payment by Western Union
> 
> Don't worry, the payment
> was sent as planned.


Would become:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: -- --
> To: -- --
> Sent: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Payment by Western Union
> 
> Don't worry, the payment
> was sent as planned.