Sendmail is probably getting that user name through identd. Disable identd
on the box and tell sendmail not to do lookups over identd at all.
-j
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, horio shoichi wrote:
> Daniel Crichton wrote:
> >
> > I've currently got some consultants setting up my Solaris box to enable me
> > to send mail to our company mail server for sending out to the internet. At
> > the moment the way that they have configured it brings up the host name
> > and the current user id in the mail headers before passing to my mail server,
> > and obviously I would rather hide these. The headers look like:
> >
> > Received from user@localhost (8.8.8+Solaris/8.8.8) by host.domain.com
> >
> > where host.domain.com is the name assigned to the Solaris box in it's
> > configuration.
> >
> > The Solaris box is inside my firewall, and the SMTP mail server is in my
> > "dmz", so I'd rather have the headers look like the Solaris box is just another
> > PC mail client on my LAN (which do not add Received headers themselves).
> >
> > Can anyone give me pointers on the configuration of sendmail (I believe this
> > is what they are using) on my Solaris box so that it does not create headers
> > in the message before passing to my SMTP mail server? I have no Unix
> > experience which is why consultants are setting it up (and also because
> > they own the box, we rent it off them along with the application software we
> > have running on the system).
> >
> > Dan
> >
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> There is hack chapter in Brian Costales with Eric Allman "Sendmail"
> O'Reily.
> See the chapter "20: The checkcompat() Cookbook".
>
> As an example output of that, see the header of this mail. You'll see
> Received: attached by internal hub and Messageid: by Netscape
> I cancelled out with X-. You might, of cource, delete those lines
> entirely.
>
>
> horio shoichi
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You are supposed to be a consumer, a black hole for goods, advertising and content.
They only want to allocate enough upstream bandwidth for 10,000,000 buy buttons.
Producing or sharing information is a subversive act and will not be tolerated.
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