Feature wishlist: Allow to hide client IP/host in submission service

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> On Aug 28, 2019, at 8:07 AM, Timo Sirainen via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Aug 2019, at 21.51, Sebastian Krause via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In many mail setups a required feature (for privacy reasons) is to
>> hide the host and IP of clients (in the "Received" header) that use
>> the authenticated submission over port 587. In Postfix that's
>> possible (https://serverfault.com/q/413533/86332), but not very nice
>> to configure especially if you only want want to strip the Received
>> header for port 587 submissions, but not on port 25.
>> 
>> As far as I can see this configuration is not possible at all in the
>> Dovecot submission server because the function which adds the
>> Received header with the client's IP address
>> (smtp_server_transaction_write_trace_record) is always called in
>> submission-commands.c.
>> 
>> It would be very useful if the submission server could anonymize the
>> client with a single configuration option, then all the Postfix
>> configuration mess (and using SASL) could be skipped by simply using
>> the Dovecot submission server instead.
> 
> Yeah, it would be useful to hide the client's IP and do it by default. Actually I think there shouldn't even be an option to not hide it. Or would it be better or worse to just not have the Received header added at all?
> 

The intent of the the Received header is to troubleshoot mail problems, so having the ability to add it in is important. 

My votes would be:

1) The ability to control the content of the Received header.

2) The ability to turn the Received line on or off