[Mailman-Users] Stripping Header from post?

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Tue Jul 8 19:44:16 CEST 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:26, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 8:31 AM -0400 2003/07/08, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> >  Use procmail as a preprocessor and the formail utility to strip out the
> >  headers and replace them with more generic ones.
> 
> 	That only works for the headers on input.  This is a case of 
> headers being generated on output, and being placed there by the next 
> system down the line (which they don't control).  They need to fix 
> their system so that it uses a single anonymized envelope sender 
> address, and then the problem will fix itself.
> 
The problem as stated was to anonymize the mail - remove the identity of
the original sender and replace it with an anonymous one. Intercepting
the incoming mail and replacing the original headers with generic ones
does just that.






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