>Thanks for that. But I am not trying to track these people down. If I >was then your answer would be very good. What I am trying to do is to >learn how to work backwards through the delivery chain to work out >where the email originated.
Examine the message header by working backwards from the top most. I receieved your post, for example, from [EMAIL PROTECTED] as indicated below, which originated from etc, etc. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mailgate2.mci.tel-pacific.com (mailgate2.mci.tel-pacific.com [203.88.255.24]) by acaymail.tel-pacific.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7M4coR8008227; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:38:50 +1000 Received: from maddog.slug.org.au (slug.progsoc.uts.edu.au [138.25.7.4]) by mailgate2.mci.tel-pacific.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7M4bWc03492; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:37:33 +1000 Received: from maddog.slug.org.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maddog.slug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F6810A7D3; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:48:58 +1000 (EST) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from andrewm.localdomain (unknown [203.82.163.19]) by maddog.slug.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7135F10A7D5 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:48:15 +1000 (EST) Received: from andrewm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by andrewm.localdomain (8.12.8/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7M4Ykj3002884; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:34:46 +1000 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:34:45 +1000 From: Andrew Monkhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Back trace on an email (St. George Hoax) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 14:27:46 +1000 X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.6 Lines: 14 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux and Free Software Discussion <slug.slug.org.au> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Status: Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
