Re: [exim] Exim4, Authentication and Sender, Reurn-Path rewr…

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Author: Laurent Rahuel
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To: Todd Lyons
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim4, Authentication and Sender, Reurn-Path rewriting (exim-4.63-10.el5)

Le 31 mai 2012 à 21:24, Todd Lyons a écrit :

> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:59 AM, Laurent Rahuel
> <laurent.rahuel@???> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know this has been asked many times but none of my googling requests gave
>> a suitable answer.
>> I wan't to get rid of Return-Path and Sender rewriting when an email is send
>> via an authenticated connexion.
>
> I guess I don't understand the goal. Why do you want to get rid of
> any auditing information that could be used to track abused accounts?
> What you are asking for is the ability to change the values that a
> mail server would normally insert in the headers for abuse tracking to
> something that can be spoofed. What's the use case? What am I not
> understanding?
>
> ...Todd
> --
> Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
> violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Martin Golding


I guess you could understand that someone setting up an smtp server with auth and tls for security reasons would search for user login not to be displayed in each email.
I guess that's why /etc/aliases exists.

Laurent