[MlMt] Machine specific header

Seamus Phillips seamus.phillips at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 03:32:19 EDT 2021


An obvious solution perhaps, but you could just use different signatures.  That is how we operate our shared mailbox.

Seamus

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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:
> 
> 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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