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Outgoing header information in qmail

Upaboveit

Outgoing header information in qmail
« on: April 21, 2003, 08:54:16 AM »
Does anyone have any suggestions for limiting the amount of information that gets inserted into the outgoing email header in qmail? Here is an example of what can be seen at the recipient's end (names of the guilty have been changed):

Return-Path:
Received: from mta04ps.bigpond.com ([192.168.115.163]) by
          mailms3.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15
          mailms3 Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with ESMTP id HDN9SU02.20U for
          ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:36:30 +1000
Received: from mydomain.com ([144.135.25.72]) by
          mta04ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta04ps Jul
          16 2002 22:47:55) with SMTP id HDN9ST00.0HL for
          ; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:36:29 +1000
Received: from ppp117.tas.padsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.217.116]) by psmam02.bigpond.com(MAM V3.3.2 74/14482693); 20 Apr 2003 23:36:29
Received: (qmail 2468 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2003 13:35:54 -0000
Received: from pc-00012 (HELO INTERNAL_COMPUTER_NAME) (10.0.0.12)
  by servername.mydomain.com (10.0.0.1) with ESMTP; 20 Apr 2003 13:35:54 -0000
From: "Sender"
To: "Recipient"
Subject: Test
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:36:27 +1000
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
   boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C30795.A9ECDD20"
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Importance: Normal

Notice that the name of the mail server and its internal IP address at this end is shown: "by servername.mydomain.com (10.0.0.1)"

Now, here is a header from an email that I have received directly from a better configured server:

Return-Path:
Delivered-To: recipient@mydomain.com
Received: (qmail 4767 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2003 15:17:55 -0000
Delivered-To: recipient@mydomain.com
Received: (qmail 4759 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2003 15:17:55 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO fuji) (24.235.177.156)
  by 0 with SMTP; 7 Mar 2003 15:17:55 -0000
From: "Sender"
To:
Subject: Subject of email.
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:15:49 -0500
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
   charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
Importance: Normal

Notice that the name of the mail server and its IP address is hidden: "by 0"

Now, any suggestions for adopting that limited information in the header? It's not for spamming, it's for security. I don't see a need for anyone to know the name and internal IP of my mail server.

Perry Michalski

Re: Outgoing header information in qmail
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2003, 04:41:02 AM »
I'm interested in knowing how to limit this information as well.

Upaboveit

Re: Outgoing header information in qmail
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2003, 05:44:48 PM »
Surely someone has a clue?