Re: Pseduo-anonymous remailer with exim???

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Author: Robert Black
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: Pseduo-anonymous remailer with exim???
On Oct 22, 10:40pm, Warner Losh wrote:
> Subject: Pseduo-anonymous remailer with exim???
> A friend and I would like to use exim as a sort of anonymous remailer.
> We have a machine that we'd like to act as a mail hub for the local
> SCA. As you may know, the people in the SCA have their mondane names,
> and their SCA names. We want to translate people's mondane
> names/addresses into their SCA names so that we can continue to be in
> the spirit of the SCA while we're online. Our group generally
> everyone's SCA name, but less often knows each other's mondane names.
> We also envision this as a stable adress for people.
>
> Ideally, we'd like to have almost no accounts on this machine, so we
> can't use the /etc/passwd features of exim without introducing
> potential security problems. The machine that handles this must also
> do duty as a router.
>
> The problem that we're having is a minor one in the rewriting of
> headers. If the mail is from someone we know about, (say
> wendy@???), we'd like to rewrite it such that it appears to
> come form this machine, with that person's SCA name (eg Fiona di
> Puccini <fiona@???>). exim's rewriting rules do this
> half way, as far as we can tell. We can get the wendy@??? ->
> fiona@??? to happen easily enoougn. However, Wendy's
> name seems to be sticky.


I doubt you can do this with exim directly. It should be easy enough to do with
a trvial extra program, however. I might have a play with it if I have time
this evening and see whether I can come up with an elegant solution.

Cheers

Rob Black

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