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 :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh 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/
