I actually solved this shortly after posting the message. You are correct
that Imail uses the primary IP of the NIC. I switched the IPs (both are in
use) and made the desired IP the primary IP of the NIC. Now my "Received
from" header is correct. Annoying that Imail just defaults to this IP
without any options to set it.

Thanks.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Received IP


Wednesday, April 24, 2002, 5:10:46 PM, you wrote:

> Everything  works  great except I noticed that when I send an email,
> the  "Received: from" header is set to the wrong IP. It is set to an
> IP that existed on the server before I moved the Imail installation.

The  last Received: header is added, as you might imagine, by the last
receiving  server. Except when you hack that last mail server to forge
it,  it  is  the  one  header  that  is  reliable,  as  it is based on
socket-level  information. If it's saying that a given IP connected to
it,  you  still  have  that  IP  on  your originating box. If it's the
primary IP address of a given NIC, that'll be problematic--why have it
around at all if it's not in use?

Also  be  aware that "Bind to IP" was only recently hotfixed (I myself
haven't verified it), so don't count on it yet to fix this problem.

-Sandy


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