[Mailman-Users] Option to suppress senders' email addresses?

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Sun Sep 26 19:30:29 CEST 2004


At 9:34 AM -0700 2004-09-26, Mark Sapiro wrote:

>  The more I think of this though, the more I think it would be
>  appropriate for Mailman to drop the incoming Received: headers from
>  posts to an anonymous list. Why preserve the trace of how a post got
>  from source to list when you want to make the source anonymous?

	This makes it much more difficult to debug certain types of mail 
problems, including bounces and multiple deliveries of the same 
message, etc....

	Trust me, you really don't want to go there.

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