Remove X-Originating-Email: for anonymous lists

Bug #558066 reported by bluecloud
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GNU Mailman
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Bug Description

The email address of the poster is send out to
anonymous lists in an X-Originating-Email header.

Hotmail adds this header to outgoing messages!!!

Patched against Mailman 2.1.1

If you use the source patch, you need to manually
recompile your .py to .pyc format and restart Mailman.

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bluecloud (bluecloud) wrote :

The file Cleanse.py-2.1.1-1.patch was added: Mailman/Handlers/Cleanse.py

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bluecloud (bluecloud) wrote :

The file Cleanse.pyc was added: Compiled with 2.1.1-1 patch

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bluecloud (bluecloud) wrote :

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Just discovered that Hotmail also uses X-Originating-IP in
the header.

Remove X-Originating-IP header with the following line in
addition to the attached Cleanse.py-2.1.1-1.patch:
        del msg['X-Originating-Email']
+ del msg['X-Originating-IP']

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