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Re: Retracing Sender's SMTP IP Address using MS Exchange 5.5

  • From: Henry R. Linneweh
  • Date: Tue Feb 29 12:42:18 2000 
Headers can be forged, if that is what you want to know. And tracing
can get messy sometimes in attempting to track down the originator.

Toplez Razer wrote:

> Dear Folks,
> We receive an e-mail that we want to reply back, but the sender's SMTP is NOT
> registered in DNS.  Let's say the sender is [email protected]
>
> Let's assume xyz.com is being resolve with its ISP DNS 150.150.150.1.  But
> there is no MX for xyz.com in this DNS.
>
> Our e-mail is MS Exchange 5.5.  Can we trace the sender's SMTP IP address?
> Is there better way than to peel off the original header packet to see the
> sender IP?
>
> Thanks,
> Audie Onibala
>
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