On Friday, June 13, 2003, 17:27:40, Len Conrad wrote:
>>I'd  prefer to have it recorded in the header for comparison against the
>>logs when there's inside e-mail abuse.

> The IPs in the logs of the mailbox server and the SMTP outbound gateway are
> sufficient for tracking down internal routing.  They are of course more
> reliable than headers, which we always say here are not to be trusted.

I  agree  they're  sufficient but it makes it easier to find in the logs
when  the  "Received:  from" is there since it contains the time and the
connecting IP.

Here's the first few lines from a prior e-mail I sent:
|>Received: from list.ipswitch.com [156.21.1.21] by queue.polylogics.com with ESMTP
|>  (SMTPD32-7.15) id AD0AE30050; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:07:22 -0400
|>Received: from queue.polylogics.com [65.169.42.164] by list.ipswitch.com with ESMTP
|>  (SMTPD32-8.00) id AA721CB50154; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:56:18 -0400
|>Received: from Rod.polylogics.com [172.27.1.77] by queue.polylogics.com with ESMTP
|>  (SMTPD32-7.15) id AC1E7960078; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:03:26 -0400
|>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:03:26 -0400
|>From: Rod Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Without  the  Received: line identifying my machine I'd have a heck of a
time figuring out who my IMail server internally received the mail from.
Especially  since  the  Ipswich server seems to be running seven minutes
slow.

> And here, Imail's own SMTP dialog could help if Imail would announce in the
> "2xx mail accepted" response the Imail msg ID.

Add it to the IMail wish list :-)

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