Thanks for the mail guys, I will continue with your advice. One thing is that I cannot find /etc/master.passwd - I am using CentOS, does anyone know if this is a distribution specific file?
Robert On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, W B Hacker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -- ## 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/
