On 6/25/2010 11:06 AM, Mark Krenz wrote: > > Hi, this is more of a policy type of question, but I'm not sure who > else to ask right now. > > We are a small webhosting/email hosting provider. We offer our > clients authenticated SMTP relaying. One of our clients is complaining > because we don't strip out the first Received header line that shows > what their company IP address is when they send from say their Outlook > client. They are claiming that as a proper hosting provider, we > shouldn't be keeping that line in. They also think that because we leave > that in that they are having their IP put on blacklists. > > So I'm wondering if that's true, have modern email relay server > practices changed for some reason? Am I going to run into issues > leaving it in? > > I looked around last night and found some pages talking about how to > strip that line out, but I couldn't find any pages recommending that > this is the preferred practice now or something. > >
Mark, As far as I know, there's no need to strip it out. My personal server doesn't, my work email server doesn't, etc. Sounds to me like someone is blowing smoke, but I'll let far more experienced folks chime in before I make too many judgement calls! -Matt
