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Re: Finding out who owns particular IP addresses
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  • To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  • Subject: Re: Finding out who owns particular IP addresses
  • From: Crist Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:20:37 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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"Smith, Lonnie" wrote:
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> Is anyone aware of an email with absolutely no header? I received a
> email with an exe. attachment with no header at all. Wouldn't even
> show me the mail exchangers it went thru?

Your mail server was probably the only MTA it went through. That is,
the sender connected directly to your mailserver. It is also possible
but less likely the last hop MTA filtered out all of the previous steps.
You should still have the record for the last host that connected to your
mail server.
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Crist J. Clark                                Network Security Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                    Globalstar, L.P.







 
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