Author: Phil Pennock Date: To: W B Hacker CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Hidden Exim version number
On 2010-09-17 at 03:09 -0400, W B Hacker wrote: > *other than* 'manually' building a new header, re-ordering headers, deleting the
> 'revealing' stock header, (a non-trivial exercise to do AND be certain it has
> worked properly in all cases).
>
> Is there a simpler means - that of customizing the server version, rev, and
> underlying OS building block(s) *from which* the 'stock' header is composed at
> the outset? 'HELO_DATA' is another example of that sort of thing..
>
> And, of course, taken as a given that anything is possible in source code, so
> just asking if there are userland knobs.
Nope.
They're there for debugging, not for misdirection. You can choose to
not reveal information, or to mislead, but it's not Exim's job to make
it as easy as possible for one mail-admin to mislead another.