[Mimedefang] GMail (was Re: stripping Received headers based on authentication)

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 21:35:53 EST 2010


David F. Skoll wrote:
> > 
>> There is no need for you to know who the ultimate enduser composing the
>> e-mail is.
> 
> I don't want to know who the ultimate end-user is.  I just want to know
> the IP address of the machine that injected the email into Google.
> It's a valuable of information I can use in my filter.

How can it possibly matter if my laptop is sending from a Panera Bread hotspot 
or a hotel room where it hasn't been before and probably won't be again?  Any 
decision you make based on that information is almost certainly going to be 
wrong or biased by unrelated things done by other people at some other time. 
The relevant piece of information is that I authenticated to the server that 
sent the message.

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   Les Mikesell
    lemikesell at gmail.com



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