Re: [Exim] headers_remove question

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tor Houghton
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] headers_remove question
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Tor Houghton wrote:

> I have a question regarding "headers_remove".
>
> I host several domains on one host; and some of these domains have users
> that use local MUA's (such as 'mutt').
>
> They wish to send emails as their domain, but without my domain showing
> excessively in the mail header.


That isn't really headers_remove. I think you are really asking about
address rewriting.

>  1 |From juser@???  Wed May 23 17:36:59 2001
>  2 |Received: from bearclaw.bogus.net ([193.214.208.180]) by mta.destination.com
>  3 |          (InterMail vM.4.01.03.21 241-129-151-011-20000307) with ESMTP
>  4 |          id <20010523153658.UJQL26521.mta.destination.com@???>
>  5 |          for <recipient@???>; Wed, 23 May 2001 17:36:58 +0200
>  6 |Received: from simonw by bearclaw.bogus.net with local (Exim 3.16 #1)
>  7 |        id 152agz-0005uK-00
>  8 |        for recipient@???; Wed, 23 May 2001 17:36:57 +0200
>  9 |Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:36:57 +0200
> 10 |From: Sender <sender@???>
> 11 |To: Recipient <recipient@???>
> 12 |Subject: Hello
> 13 |Message-ID: <20010523173657.B7858@???>
> 14 |Mime-Version: 1.0
> 15 |Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 16 |Content-Disposition: inline
> 17 |User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
> 18 |Sender: "Joe User,,," <juser@???>

>
> The following changes to the header are wished for:
>
>     1 : This line is added by the recipients MTA, how to change this?


Rewrite the envelope sender, because that's what that address is.

>   2-9 : Not an issue
>    10 : The user's own domain and mail user.
> 11-17 : Not an issue
>    18 : Changed to "sender@???" or removed.


Use rewriting to change this.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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