[MlMt] Machine specific header

Marc ARC MailMate at arcict.com
Wed Jul 28 10:02:21 EDT 2021


Seamus

That’s just what we try to prevent ;-)

Marc

On 28 Jul 2021, at 9:32, Seamus Phillips wrote:

> An obvious solution perhaps, but you could just use different signatures.  That is how we operate our shared mailbox.
>
> Seamus
>
> --
> Seamus Phillips
>
>> On 28 Jul 2021, at 03:49, Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> wrote:
>>
>> On 2021-07-27 18:24:10 (+0800), MM_Arc wrote:
>>> At the office we are handling info-account with a number of users.
>>> At rare occasions the need arises to be able to tell which workstation did send the mail . . .
>>>
>>> So I’m wondering if there is a possibility to configure/add/set a specific header/tag based on the MM installation.
>>
>> You could configure MailMate to put the hostname in the EHLO command it sends to the SMTP server:
>>
>> defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmSMTPFixedHostname -string "example.com"
>>
>> In many (most? some?) setups, that will cause the string to turn up in the first Received: header.
>>
>> Alternatively, you could set a custom header:
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>> defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmAdditionalComposerHeaders "( { headerName = 'X-YourOrg-Info-Workstation'; defaultValue = 'Something'; type = 'plain'; } )"
>>
>> That may be a little bit more reliable in transit but users can easily edit or suppress the header (either inadvertently or maliciously).
>>
>> (These settings are documented on https://manual.mailmate-app.com/hidden_preferences)
>>
>> A more reliable solution would be to give each user of the shared mailbox their own credentials.
>>
>> Philip
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>> Philip Paeps
>> Senior Reality Engineer
>> Alternative Enterprises
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