From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 08:55:26 CDT

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Mark Krenz:
>
> Ok, thanks for answering that. Is there anyway to have it added as
> part of the smtp agent when it is received by the smtp agent?

No that would be a privacy bug. It would disclose to other recipients
who else received a copy of the same message. Of course EXIM does
this, but not everything EXIM does is correct.

> If not, then this basically means that I can't setup an email router so
> that it would allow users on the delivery machine to see who the message
> was originally sent to in a situation like a user being on a mailing
> list. I would think that this would be a common problem for people.

Of course you can. Simply do the virtual aliasing on the final
destination host! Don't do it on an intermediate machine.

        Wietse

> Mark
>
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:56:26AM GMT, Darren Pilgrim [postfixbitfreak.org] said the following:
> > Mark Krenz wrote:
> > > Ok, I guess i'm not going to get any help on this. Maybe I should ask
> > >this question then. Why isn't postfix inserting an X-original-to header
> > >when it forwards from the frontend email routing server to the backend
> > >delivery server? Shouldn't that be where it inserts it?
> >
> > The X-Original-To, Return-Path and Delivered-To headers are added by the
> > delivery agent (local, virtual or pipe).
> >
> > --
> > Darren Pilgrim
> >
>
>
> --
> Mark S. Krenz
> IT Director
> Suso Technology Services, Inc.
> http://suso.org/
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