But, if you were say a "wannabe-hacker" within the company or an affiliate of the company that has access to the network, that information can be used for objectionable purposes.
Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Guy Isabel > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: IP address appears in header with sender > info > > > I should know better than replying to a post by Len but... > > > >When a client on our network sends and email, using Outlook, the ip > > >address of their computer is included in the header. This ip address > then > > >goes everywhere the email goes. > > > > yep, that's objectionable for a lot of people. > > I don't see why the originating IP address being present in the > header would > be objectionable "for a lot of people" (spammers excluded, of course). > Furthermore, as I wrote earlier, Geof's IP address is a private, internal, > non-routable one (192.168.1.63). Kind of hard for anyone to trace this IP > back to Geof -- or am I missing something? > > Guy > -- > Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
