From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 18 10:36:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29236 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:36:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dilbert.iagnet.net (root@dilbert.iagnet.net [207.206.8.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29166 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by dilbert.iagnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id NAA09335; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:35:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199706181735.NAA09335@dilbert.iagnet.net> Subject: Re: Does anyone filter e-mail headers To: hdm@demon.net (Dom Mitchell) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:35:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: rif@nix.kconline.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Dom Mitchell at "Jun 18, 97 04:20:26 pm" RFC_Violation: You saw it here first! From: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net (Jamie Rishaw) X-PGP-Fingerprint: <921C135D> C4 48 1B 26 18 7B 1F D9 BA C4 9C 7A B1 07 07 E8 Reply-To: jamie@dilbert.iagnet.net Organization: Internet Access Group, Inc. X-No-Archive: yes X-Face: >:-p X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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