I'm sure someone can correct me, but I think the ID is currently based on the system time and the inode number of the file or something like that - which forces uniqueness even in a system with multiple processors - as long as the messages are on the same filesystem.
It's got nothing to do with IP. What I have been hoping for (similarly to you, but for different reasons) was creating a way to associate all log entries from a particular message submission TO that message submission. Like one mail submission is delivered 50 times... I want to count those bytes, etc. But the fact that the ID seems to get assigned later seems to prevent that - I have been looking at hacks to the submit process, etc. to cause more log info to be dumped so I could make the connections, but nothing yet. Is there a suggested way? (anyone else attempting similar?) thanks. m/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jerry Amundson Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: message id, ip address relationship? Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jerry Amundson writes: > >> Sometimes, particularly when hunting spammers, I need to associate an >> IP address with the delivery of a message. Can the IP somehow be >> discerned from the msgid? For example, of the two starts of >> courieresmtpd below, which is responsible for the message? >> >> Mar 10 10:07:26 arsenic courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:66.205.200.238] >> Mar 10 10:07:33 arsenic courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:66.205.204.17] >> Mar 10 10:07:34 arsenic courierd: newmsg,id=001674CE.3E6CB846.0000413E >> Mar 10 10:07:34 arsenic courierd: >> started,id=001674CE.3E6CB846.0000413E,from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED] >,module=local,host=tomw!!5070!100!/users/tomw!!,addr=<tomw> >> > > > You can look at the headers of the message to determine which IP address > it came from. ... and it's been POP3 downloaded to a client PC. I didn't want to have to involve the end-user. jerry ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
