Robert McNaught wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie at exim, tried googling and doing rewrite rules to fix > this, cant seem to figure this one out myself. > > I am having 2 "Received:" headers (the initial linux user then the IP > of the exim server) appearing in the top of my email (I use evolution > and click show all headers). One of them is showing the linux user > which initiated the mail (this is a proprietary name and I wish to > remove it or change it).
The problem of showing a 'linux user' sensitive ID (login name, one supposes) can be made to go away entirely if you switch to virtual users. Even 'postaster@' is in the virtual category on our boxes. There is no need to have any 'shell account' or even 'nologin' or daemon identities used in mail *unless8 they are gong to receive into old-style mboxen. better to use virtyal user ID and POP or IMAP. But *even so* - passing an editor over /etc/master.passwd and changing the 'real name' portion to NOT include the '&' that picks up the login name may solve at least part of your problem faster. Couple that with relaying inbound to where you want it via entries in /etc/aliases, and you may have all you need w/o re-writing anything - even for daemon runners. 'KISS' Bill Hacker > I successfully managed to change the > addresses in the envelope-from: and Return-path: headers using > rewriting. However, I cannot see a fix for changing the linux user. > I have a thought that it might be necessary to remove the headers > called Received: from the mail completely, but I do not know if this > makes it tough to get round spam blockers. > > Ideally, what I want to do is to change this line in the mail header: > > Received: from bob by myhost.mydomain.com with local (Exim > 4.63)(envelope-from............ > > Any idea how I can get rid of bob or change bob to sally? > > Rewrites only appear to work for real email addresses and not the > linux user initiating the mail - I did try putting in > > bob sally EFTBcfhrst in exim.conf which I thought might have rewrote it. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction or tell me if its possible? > > TIA > > Robert > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
