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LuvMacs - 25 Jun 2006 17:51 GMT

I have "Addressguard" option with my AT&T/Yahoo DSL account.

Right now I'm using Eudora Pro 6.2b7 as email client instead of using
account from their web site.

I have my various addressguard addresses set up for different
personalities so I can send out and have From field be whichever address
I prefer to divulge depending on who I'm sending to.

This way, if I happen to get spam to a particular addressguard address,
I can delete at any time as that's what addressguard is all about.

I've since noticed my main (Dominant) email address is still displaying
in header information when full headers are viewed on sent emails (I
sent test email to myself - that's how I noticed it).

This completely defeats purpose of using addressguard as Eudora is not
preventing my main address getting out when using an alternate
personality when sending.

Is there any way to suppress the line that shows up that looks like this?

Received: from unknown (HELO ?11.111.111.111?)
(emailname@isp.com@11.11.111.111 with plain)

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Barry Margolin - 25 Jun 2006 20:27 GMT

> I have "Addressguard" option with my AT&T/Yahoo DSL account.
>
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> Received: from unknown (HELO ?11.111.111.111?)
> (emailname@isp.com@11.11.111.111 with plain)

Received lines are added by the server, not the mail client, so you need
to contact the ISP about this.

My guess is it's adding this when you use SMTP authentication.

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Wayne C. Morris - 25 Jun 2006 21:34 GMT

> I have "Addressguard" option with my AT&T/Yahoo DSL account.
>
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> This way, if I happen to get spam to a particular addressguard address,
> I can delete at any time as that's what addressguard is all about.

I do something similar, except I just set up multiple email accounts with
my ISP -- they allow up to 7 per household, and there aren't that many
people in my home, so I have some extras. If one account starts getting
spam, I can just delete that account and create another when needed.

> I've since noticed my main (Dominant) email address is still displaying
> in header information when full headers are viewed on sent emails (I
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> Received: from unknown (HELO ?11.111.111.111?)
> (emailname@isp.com@11.11.111.111 with plain)

No, you can't suppress it. It's added by your ISP's mail server, and you
have to give a valid email account & password when connecting to the mail
server.

I can think of only 3 solutions:

1) If your ISP lets you have multiple email accounts, set up one for each
personality, and make sure each personality is configured to use its own
account for both sending & receiving. (That's what I do.)

2) Set up email accounts with services like Gmail.com; just make sure it's
someplace that has their own mail server, and not just a mail forwarding
service. Configure each personality to use a different account.

3) Switch to an ISP that doesn't insert your real email address into the
headers.

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