On 25 Aug 2019, at 21.51, Sebastian Krause via dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > In many mail setups a required feature (for privacy reasons) is to > hide the host and IP of clients (in the "Received" header) that use > the authenticated submission over port 587. In Postfix that's > possible (https://serverfault.com/q/413533/86332), but not very nice > to configure especially if you only want want to strip the Received > header for port 587 submissions, but not on port 25. > > As far as I can see this configuration is not possible at all in the > Dovecot submission server because the function which adds the > Received header with the client's IP address > (smtp_server_transaction_write_trace_record) is always called in > submission-commands.c. > > It would be very useful if the submission server could anonymize the > client with a single configuration option, then all the Postfix > configuration mess (and using SASL) could be skipped by simply using > the Dovecot submission server instead.
Yeah, it would be useful to hide the client's IP and do it by default. Actually I think there shouldn't even be an option to not hide it. Or would it be better or worse to just not have the Received header added at all?
