Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:35:39 -0400 (EDT) From: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net (Jamie Rishaw) To: hdm@demon.net (Dom Mitchell) Cc: rif@nix.kconline.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone filter e-mail headers Message-ID: <199706181735.NAA09335@dilbert.iagnet.net> In-Reply-To: <E0weMX4-0000o7-00.qmail@stress.noc.demon.net> from Dom Mitchell at "Jun 18, 97 04:20:26 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Point out to him that RFC822 says you need Received in there:
-snip-
received = "Received" ":" ; one per relay
["from" domain] ; sending host
["by" domain] ; receiving host
["via" atom] ; physical path
*("with" atom) ; link/mail protocol
["id" msg-id] ; receiver msg id
["for" addr-spec] ; initial form
-snip-
Tell him that if you take it out, the company that runs the InterNet
might prosecute you or something ;-)
> Jim Riffle wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone out their use any kind of filtering mechanism for peoples
> > incoming mail to strip the routing information from incoming e-mail? The
> > other day I had a customer who though it was just terrible that we did
> > not filter off all that information for them.
> >
> > Personally, I think it is very useful and was wondering if anybody
> > actually does this kind of thing.
>
> Which kind of routing information is this? If he means the "Received:"
> lines, then strippping them out is a really, really, bad, non-standards
> conforming idea. If he means getting rid of route-addrs, then why are
> they there in the first place?
>
> -Dom
>
--
jamie g.k. rishaw dal/efnet:gavroche Internet Access Group
'whois JGR2' for PGP keyID/Fingerprint __ Network Operations/TSD
DID:216.902.5455 FAX:216.623.3566 \/ 800.637.4IAGx5455
DES: Help Crack the code! http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199706181735.NAA09335>