From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 31 18:23:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [63.145.197.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93B837B71B for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:23:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14jXWX-0004MZ-00; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:23:25 -0800 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:23:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: Dale Chulhan - Home Cc: "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Email Abuse Question "X-Originating IP" In-Reply-To: <3AC65E5E.56B1954D@uwi.tt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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