Postfix appending information I do not want to the header
I recently switched my Linux Debian 4.0 server from Sendmail to Postfix. I use the server to send out an email page to several users cell phones. When I was using Sendmail the pages would go out normally. But now I have switched to Postfix I am getting what appears to be a datestamp and some unique ID at the begining of the sent page. It appears to me that Postfix is appending this information to the page and I need to remove it so the page can be viewed properly.
As mentioned above I need to remove the datestamp and unique id from the email sent.
As mentioned above I need to remove the datestamp and unique id from the email sent.
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What software are you using to send these emails? It should generate message-id and date headers itself. Postfix checks if there is Message-ID header - if not, it adds its own Message-ID (as every email has to have such header). The same for Date header.
Anyway - email client's should be able to handle such emails - I would rather look for some bugs in them.
Both these headers - Message-ID and Date, in provided sample, are added by postfix, so you can't remove them (you can try, but if they are removed, postfix will add them again :)).
The only way you can 'fix' this is to generate your emails and add these headers into them while they are generated. Probably headers added in sending software won't be as the last ones, but somewhere in the middle of other headers. This should solve your problem.
Anyway - email client's should be able to handle such emails - I would rather look for some bugs in them.
Both these headers - Message-ID and Date, in provided sample, are added by postfix, so you can't remove them (you can try, but if they are removed, postfix will add them again :)).
The only way you can 'fix' this is to generate your emails and add these headers into them while they are generated. Probably headers added in sending software won't be as the last ones, but somewhere in the middle of other headers. This should solve your problem.
"in part to oklit's confirmation that Postfix does not automatically add information to the header."
I wrote that postfix is not adding by default anything to email's _body_. It is adding some headers in few cases (one of them I mentioned in my previous post) :)
I wrote that postfix is not adding by default anything to email's _body_. It is adding some headers in few cases (one of them I mentioned in my previous post) :)
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The specific problem I am having involved the last two lines of the header information The Message-ID and Date are being added by Postfix and I do not want them. Since on the email some end users get the body starts out showing the Message-ID and Date then there is not enough room for the actual message.
Hope this helps.
***** MESSAGE HEADER INFO *****
X-Apparently-To: k9barry@ameritech.net via 68.142.201.110; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:16:58 -0800
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 64.34.171.*REMOVED*
X-Originating-IP: [64.34.171.*REMOVED*]
Authentication-Results: mta154.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.
Received: from 207.115.36.107 (EHLO nlpi091.prodigy.net) (207.115.36.107)
by mta154.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.
X-Originating-IP: [64.34.171.172]
Received: from www.madisoncountyindiana.us (www.madisoncountyindiana.us [64.34.171.*REMOVED*])
by nlpi091.prodigy.net (8.13.8 inb ipv6 jeff0203/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1JCGwKE027008
for <k9barry@ameritech.net>; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:16:58 -0600
Received: by www.madisoncountyindiana.us (Postfix, from userid 33)
id 1C2F3186C05B; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:16:58 -0500 (EST)
To: k9barry@ameritech.net
Subject: Page from Cleaver, James .
From: Page Server <pageserve@madisoncountyin
Message-Id: <20090219121658.1C2F3186C0
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:16:58 -0500 (EST)
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