Re: [Exim] new smail convert idiot questions

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Author: Randy Bush
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: exim users
Subject: Re: [Exim] new smail convert idiot questions
>> how do i get exim
>> o not to add a Sender: header to locally originated mail
> You can't in general.


bummer.

> (1) You can get it to remove it again later, by putting
> headers_remove = Sender
> on all your transports.


i probably do not want to strip Sender: from mail received from other hosts.

> Unfortunately, owing to an oversight, headers_remove is not an expanded
> string in the released Exim. I've fixed that in the testing releases, so
> one could do some tests for local mail in the expansion (e.g. no value for
> $sender_host_address).


you have a taste for cruft. :-)

> (2) However, is your *real* question "how do I submit mail from UUCP
> without it adding Sender"?


nope. i am getting Sender: on mail originated by my mua, and did not with
smail. e.g.

    Return-path: <randy@???>
    Received: from randy by rip.psg.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1)
        id 11Qqf3-00077g-00
        for randy@???; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 04:22:09 -0700
    Message-Id: <E11Qqf3-00077g-00@???>
    Sender: Randy Bush <randy@???>
    From: Randy Bush <randy@???>
    To: randy@???
    Subject: test
    Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 04:22:09 -0700


    test


and note that it is revealing my hostname, which is most annoying.

also, it added the local hostname to the To: which was originally only
"randy".

>> o to strip hostnames a la smail's visible_name
> I can't remember what visible_name was! This is either related to
> qualify_domain, or some kind of address rewriting rule.


say my outbound mail gateway is gw.psg.com, and i send outbound mail either
from it or from some internal host ih.psg.com. to the outside world, i do
not want the hostnames visible (except in Received: and Message-Id: lines),
only psg.com.

randy