Op 16-09-13 14:11, Ferrous Cranus schreef: > Στις 16/9/2013 2:44 μμ, ο/η Heiko Wundram έγραψε: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Am 16.09.2013 13:37, schrieb Ferrous Cranus: >>> What i want now is to be able to alter the hostname of my server so >>> the mails wont indicate that they derive from superhost.gr as they >>> aare now sen in the mail headers. >> >> There is no way to do that, as the Received:-header which you complain >> about is inserted by Google mail servers. > > true. > Even if now i have stopped using Google's SMTP Server as a means for > sending out mails and i have decided to use my local MTA instead, at the > very moment Google's POP servers receive the mail they still add a > RECEIVE header revealing the hostname of the server that initiated the > contact. Correct? > > But even so, if we alter for example the hostname of our server to a > different name then wouldn't Google use that to identify the server thus > protecting the real identity(hostname that is) of the server that > initiated the connection?
No, google will probably find out that the name your server identifies with, will not correspond with the IP address it is connected to and will write a receive line that will reflect that fact, using reverse DNS to report the real hostname of your computer. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list