Option to not add "Received" header ?

[Andrzej A. Filip]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2016, at 22:08, Tom Sommer <mail at tomsommer.dk> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2015-03-24 12:27, Florent B wrote:
>> 
>>> I use Dovecot in lmtp mode to receive mails.
>>> I would like an option to tell Dovecot to not add a "Reveived" header on
>>> each server (I use a director, so Director also adds this header).
>> 
>> I would love this as well.
>
> How about the other way around: Does anybody want Dovecot LMTP to add
> a Received header? dovecot-lda doesn't. And proxy/director logs
> nowadays about what goes through them. Dovecot itself doesn't check
> the Received headers in any way for looping or other purposes. Maybe
> Dovecot v2.3 shouldn't add any Received headers at all?

IMHO The "Received:" may be handy for purposes of debugging delivery.
I can easily agree with your "suggestion" that it should not be added
_by default_ .