Email IP Address

[Lord of Gore]

Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> Not to start a flame war, 
If you were really concerned about this you would have sent me a private 
message. I do from time to time. You can even ask for my YM id if you 
want to hate me in real-time. But this obliges me to make a public point 
of view.
> here, but isn't a pissy response like this
> also a waste of bandwidth?  
No it's not because it will make a future economy of bandwidth when this 
guy and others will think twice before asking a dumb question like that one.
You on the other hand, unfortunately, do not see this from a realistic 
point of view. Consider the fact that such an e-mail needs a reply to 
ask for a better description of the problem. That reply will be replied 
by another e-mail containing more or less pertinent info on the matter. 
Maybe someone thinks of a specific problem, sends a reply to the first 
mail and receives one about not resolving the real problem. We have now 
how many e-mails that didn't really solved the problem? I'll tell you: 
five. say the medium size of the e-mails is 2KB. Multiply with 5 e-mails 
and with 1000 subscribers and you'll have a 10MB useless communication. 
Waste enough for you?
> Come on, maybe the guy's new?
No. I told you, he's lazy. Or he sucks at communication skills. Either 
way redhat-list is not guilty for this. If you are his advocate then 
tell me what he meant when he said "IP address of every email" and why 
you are 100% he meant it. Responses below 100% degree of certitude are 
not taken in account because this incertitude will generate mail replies 
with at least twice the size.
>   Shit, I have
> reporting tools that tell me the originating IP's of certain things
> (e.g. malformed messages or control commands), and I have no idea how
> they got them. 
>   
Then you should uninstall them. I am not complaining about the whole 
e-mail IP thing but about the fact that an e-mail's envelope contains 
many info that could be probed for an IP address. Therefore the mention 
about the mind reading. Maybe you have a crystal ball but I broke mine 
while trying to unleash the hidden powers of micro$oft wi(n)dow$. The 
damn thing resigned and imploded. Said it was overworked and 
overqualified for the job.

For others that have itchy hands/fingers: Yes, this e-mail *is* 
contained in the waste of bandwidth type of communication. :) . The only 
excuse is that I had to stand up and defend my point of view. 10q for 
your patience.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Lord of Gore
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:23 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Email IP Address
>
> Rizwan Khan wrote:
>   
>> Hello
>>
>> I wanted to check the IP address of every email that i am receiving, 
>> is there any standard way of getting IP adress of incoming emails.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>     
> Another mail that I consider waste of bandwidth just because someone is
> lazy enough to think that we are mind readers...
> emails don't have ip addresses. tcp/ip packets do. maybe you' like to
> tell us exactly what you want to find out.
> sender's domain mx? originating smtp server?
>
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