About "received" header when using Dovecot proxy

Sami Ketola
Mon, 02 Dec 2019 20:13:20 -0000

> On 2 Dec 2019, at 19.23, Tom Sommer via dovecot <dovecot at
dovecot.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019-12-02 13:42, Riku via dovecot wrote:
>> Hello.
>> My name is Riku.
>> Currently, I use Dovecot as a proxy for another SMTP server.
>> However, this seems to cause the IP address of the "received"
header
>> to be that of the proxy server.
>> Is it possible to change this so that the IP address of the sender is
entered?
>> The version of Dovecot is "2.3.8 (9df20d2db)".
>> Sorry for the incomprehensible explanation.
>
> This has been discussed a few times on the list already, and I believe
there is a fix coming at some point: https://github.com/dovecot/core/pull/74
>
> Currently there is none


This change does not allow you to edit the received header, it's only about
not adding it at all.

and the change seems to be on the list for 2.3.9

Sami