Protecting Your Privacy In Email Headers from your own emails (these are not the company/firms emails) !.
My Daughter has started her First job and she gets free accommodation with Free high speed internet access via the firms internal Ethernet LAN feed to an access point in her flat and I would think the Ethernet LAN feeds there admin and all other offices/shops also other employees accommodation/flats.
I could see there feed comes through a 'pfsence' Hardware Firewall.
My wife and I have just been to see her and help with some diy in her flat and I set her laptop up for the internet use and set her emails up to use an outgoing SMTP server via gmail.com (The emails send and recieve ok ).
I did a speed test and got 36Mbps down and 20 up ping 11ms .
Checking her laptops Network IP address / Gateway and DNS settings I noticed the
DNS and
Gateway where different and it looks like it's DNS server is the the mail server for this firm !
Something odd there.
With my own Hardware Network firewall the 'Gateway' and 'DNS' are the IP's of the firewalls and not a mail servers !.
I sent some emails to herself to test they sent and received also some to my home email address.
To day I have been looking at the emails I sent to my email address at home and I am not very happy for they are advertising what place she works in
her private emails and it only took less that 30 seconds googling to find out where she is from by the email headers,
that is not acceptable in this day and age. I can see in the mail headers '
mail.?firm.net' (the firms name where she is removed)
The website for the firm and all there Ethernet LAN is handled via another IT. company.
Do you think I should contact this IT firm and ask if there setting are correct .?