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Op 16-09-13 14:11, Ferrous Cranus schreef:
> Στις 16/9/2013 2:44 μμ, ο/η Heiko Wundram έγραψε:
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>> Hash: SHA1
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>> Am 16.09.2013 13:37, schrieb Ferrous Cranus:
>>> What i want now is to be able to alter the hostname of my server so
>>> the mails wont indicate that they derive from superhost.gr as they
>>> aare now sen in the mail headers.
>>
>> There is no way to do that, as the Received:-header which you complain
>> about is inserted by Google mail servers.
> 
> true.
> Even if now i have stopped using Google's SMTP Server as a means for
> sending out mails and i have decided to use my local MTA instead, at the
> very moment Google's POP servers receive the mail they still add a
> RECEIVE header revealing the hostname of the server that initiated the
> contact. Correct?
> 
> But even so, if we alter for example the hostname of our server to a
> different name then wouldn't Google use that to identify the server thus
> protecting the real identity(hostname that is) of the server that
> initiated the connection?

No, google will probably find out that the name your server identifies
with, will not correspond with the IP address it is connected to and
will write a receive line that will reflect that fact, using reverse
DNS to report the real hostname of your computer.

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Antoon Pardon