Re: Tracking source of outbound SMTP messages

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

>When e-mail travels through the internet, every SMTP server that handles
>it should be adding a Received: header to the top of the message.   

Yes, but in this case they are the sender and I can't see the headers of the
messages (or the messages themselves) in order to track it that way.  And even
if I were to track down and find a recipient to have them give me the headers,
what it would show is the external IP of the company, not the internal address
on the LAN where the message originated.


>For example, your message (which  I'm replying to) contained this:
>Received: from main (162-32.9-67.se.rr.com [67.9.32.162])

And that is not my internal network address, it is my (current) IP cable
address.  It wouldn't help me determine which machine on my network sent the
message.

Doug