Re: Exim headers!
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 03:41:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Naitik Shah (naitik@gamebox.net) [031007 14:35]:
> > I'm using exim4 and i receive mail using fetchmail and check using
> > courier-imap (various clients). What I find quite annoying that sending
> > and receiving mail, exim adds headers that are quite useless, and rather
> > disrupting. It adds these, which mess up my reply function, as sylpheed
> > (primary client) uses return-path (i think) for some reason.
>
> They're not useless, and I'm not clear why you find them so annoying. I
> doubt that sylpheed (or any MUA) would use these for anything, but I
> don't use sylpheed, so I could be wrong. Maybe there's a reply-to or
> mail-followup-to header in the problematic messages that's tripping you
> up, rather than envelope-to and return-path?
>
> > Envelope-to: user@localhost.name
> > Return-path: user@localhost.name
> >
> > How do I get exim to stop adding these?
>
> Remove the "return_path_add" and "envelope_to_add" options from the
> relevant transports.
>
For a desktop install, that is dangerously close to "not secure by
design" (broadcasting what is for some users purely internal information
by default).
How about removing exim or any MUA from the default install?
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