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Old 01-29-2010
Changing email header information by tweaking sendmail

How can i tweak sendmail configuration files so that the "Received:" field is removed from email header information?
Or else can i change
Code:
Received: (from enswitch@localhost)

in email header to something like
Code:
Received: (from xyz@localhost)

?

---------- Post updated at 09:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:00 PM ----------

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Last edited by proactiveaditya; 01-29-2010 at 10:56 PM..
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Old 06-21-2010
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Old 06-22-2010
do u want to put the subject in ur email ?? ?

Code:
mailx -s "ur_subvject" "email_address"

 
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