On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:55:42AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you have a proxy server (squid, for example) in between your machine
> > and Yahoo Mail, then the IP would be that of the proxy server. You might
> > not even know about it if it is running in transparent proxy mode.
> 
> AFAIK, squid inserts http_referer or something like that. You can track that 
> but that means you trust a proxy server that you don't control. Same thing as 
> trusting remote mail server..;-)

Unfortunately, that is visible only to hotmail/yahoo and the like, and is not
inserted in the headers of the mail sent.

It can be turned off, too.

Binand

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