Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:23:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt> Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Email Abuse Question "X-Originating IP" Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103311817440.8066-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> In-Reply-To: <3AC65E5E.56B1954D@uwi.tt>
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Dale Chulhan - Home wrote: > I examined some Hotmail emails that were originating with an abuser > about a year ago and could not find the X-Originating IP in emails sent > to windows or macs (I did view source in both cases). Is it that this > header only shows up on Unix machines? I've noticed that everyone who I don't think "X-" headers are platform specific. These headers are generally added by the particular mail program generating or sending the mail. As far as I can tell (but I didn't look very far), none of the mail programs or mail processing tools I use (under Unix-type systems), use that particular header. When I am curious about a particular IP, I look at the "Received: from" lines in the headers. > has written to point this error out to me is a Unix user. Is it an "error"? Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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