Re: Hiding one's email source username/hostname/ISP

[David Levine]

Tom wrote:

> Bob Carragher <dnc2dnc@gmail.com> writes:
> > In emails that I send, if you look at the Received: header chain,
> > you'd find a line that resembles,
>
> >      Received: from Hikaru (xxxxx.comcast.net. [IP-address])
> >             by smtp.gmail.com [...]
>
> Received: lines are generally added by each MTA that the message
> passes through.  In this case it was smtp.gmail.com that added that;
> it's not under your control.  You can probably modify the "Hikaru"
> part, as I believe that just comes from the HELO command your mail
> client uses.  I'm not sure which part of the nmh configuration
> that comes from, but it can't be too hard to find.

It derives from the (hidden/undocumented) client switch to send(1).
I'll try sending this message with "send -client HiddenHostname".

David