altering/removing extended email headers

[Developer8]

Does anyone know how to alter or remove extended email headers using sendmail? I'm doing a mass mailing on an opt-in customer database, and for security purposes, I don't want the name of the database server to appear in the email headers. Any suggestions?

Is reconfiguring and compiling sendmail on the right track?

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi there,

I'd be asking the question in one of the UNIX forums here. Mike
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[Developer8]

I did some research and found that altering/removing extended email headers is a bad idea. Besides from being a red flag for spam, I would not be able to fake the Received Header.

i.e. If I added 3 fake Received Headers, my three would appear below the one generated by the recipients mail server.

I wanted to protect the name of my database server, but I've decided to go a different security route.