On 29/07/2002, Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote To 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > While I'm at it... is there a way to restrict this information from outgoing 
>messages when using Exchange? Saw a few messages last week that explained how to mask 
>the Exchange server banner, but not for mail headers and such...
> 
> I find running mail through Postfix and the following line in
> the badheader file....
> 
> /^X-Mailer:.*/ ignore          

Still leaves you with the Received: lines, which can be ignored that
way aswell.

> But that is technically an RFC infringement, as envelope
> elements are sacrosanct, but I guess that was more important

Actually this is not the envelope, and X- headers are subject to
ignorance anyway.

Filtering Received: headers is more of a problem, if you need
deeper debugging, but even this can be resolved.

And common security enforcements dont fit into the land of 
common RFCs anyway :)

ciao
-- 
Philipp Buehler, aka fips | sysfive.com GmbH | BOfH | NUCH | <double-p> 

#1: Break the clue barrier!
#2: Already had buzzword confuseritis ? 

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