On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Daniel Staal wrote:
On Wed, March 31, 2010 12:14 pm, Leigh Porter wrote:
Until somebody does 'view headers' and sees
/X/-/Sender/-/IP / and oh look, it was sent from 'foobarco' ;-)
That depends on how they are sending it, of course. Webmail usually just has the IP of the host, and I imagine quite a few others around here have their own personal servers that could also be used for this, one way or another.
GMail doesn't even add that header, so you don't have to worry where you are browsing from. < cue thread about Google's arrogance that they know better how to stop spam than anyone else; cue thread about Google's complete inability to stop spam even close to as well as many others; cue thread about Google's hypocrisy about adding X-Sender-IP on IMAP injected mail, but not through web mail; cue thread about people talking about e-mail / spam on NANOG; cue thread about moving the whole thing to nanog-futures; cue thread about ....
-- TTFN, patrick
Then of course there are things like Blackberries and iPhones that can send email themselves, and are likely to have IP addresses that are linked to something besides their current location.
Daniel T. Staal
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