Find original ip address

[Marti, Robert]

Check /var/log/maillog - it should show the IP that the email came from.

Rob Marti


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Lynch
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:12 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Find original ip address

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:07, Joy Methew <ml4joy at gmail.com> wrote:
> ya sorry........actually i wanna ask how i can find original ip address of
> sender.

Usually, you can't.

Some email clients, especially webmail, will include the source IP
address of the sender/composer, which may be the IP address of the
actual host from which he/she sent the email. But YMMV.

-Ryan

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