About "received" header when using Dovecot proxy

Sami Ketola sami.ketola at dovecot.fi
Mon Dec 2 22:13:20 EET 2019


> 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



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