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Discussion in 'Domains, DNS, Email & SSL Certificates' started by elargento, Jul 11, 2020.

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  1. Jul 11, 2020 #1
    elargento

    elargento Member

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    I'm using a 2nd server to send emails from XenForo. However even when I set up a different SMTP host email headers still showing the IP of the server where the forum is installed:
    upload_2020-7-10_16-37-58.png

    91.211.251.20 is the original server IP whereas 5.61.48.126 is the SMTP IP set in XenForo

    Any ideas why IP 91.211.251.20 is displayed?
     
  2. Jul 12, 2020 #2
    eva2000

    eva2000 Administrator Staff Member

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    are you relaying smtp via a 2nd server using exim mail server ? if so you need to configure exim mail server to filter out receiving server's IP (xenforo server) or better yet just setup xenforo to use Amazon SES smtp which automatically removes and hides real server IP.
     
  3. Jul 15, 2020 #3
    Rake-GH

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    I didn't know this could happen, I just double checked mine, I use MailCow and it does not send origin web sever IP, thankfully, just the mail server IP
     
  4. Jul 15, 2020 #4
    elargento

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    Yes, I'm using Exim.

    I've set Exim to remove headers with
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    remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
headers_remove = Received
    but it didn't work.

    Any ideas how?
     
  5. Jul 15, 2020 #5
    eva2000

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    Yeah I believe MailCow removes the IP @rdan might be able to confirm ?

    You'd need to ask Exim folks
     
  6. Jul 16, 2020 #6
    rdan

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    I'm Mail-in-a-Box user :)
    And yes it hide server IP.
     
  7. Aug 1, 2020 #7
    elargento

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    It was much easier:
    etc/exim/exim.conf and add headers_remove = Received
     
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