Murder works wonderfully but alarms users

Robert Banz banz at umbc.edu
Mon Sep 10 12:22:15 EDT 2007


Its much more productive to eliminate the complaining users and  
replace them with something less alarmist.

On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:59, Gary Mills wrote:

> We have a Cyrus murder configuration with one proxy front-end and
> one storage back-end.  I'm very pleased with it.  However, users who
> happen to look at the full headers of their e-mail are often alarmed
> by the word `murder' that appears in the first `Received' header.
> It's even worse when the message is from daemon!
>
> Here are some typical headers.  Would it be possible to eliminate
> the offensive word or replace it with something more meaningful?
>
>   Received: from murder (electra.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.16.23])
>            by mbox.cc.umanitoba.ca (Cyrus v2.3.8) with LMTPA;
>            Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:14:47 -0500
>   X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.3
>   Received: from electra.cc.umanitoba.ca ([unix socket])
>            by cc.umanitoba.ca (Cyrus v2.3.8) with LMTPA;
>            Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:14:47 -0500
>   X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.3
>
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