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From: Mike '/m'
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:12:59 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
wrote:
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>"Thees Peereboom" wrote in message
>news:opsndzb4sx2hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...
>> Bob,
>>
>> Moreover - your internal, non-routeable IPaddress is in every email you
>> send.
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>> - Thees Peereboom
>>
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>
>?
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>Looking at the email source I see my computer name, e-mail address, and ip
>address of router but not my internal 192.x . What am I missing?
Your email client connects to a SMTP server on the other side of your
gateway, so the SMTP server sees your router's external IP address as the
source of the connection.
I use a SMTP server on my home network, so it sees the connection from my
workstation's IP [non-routable] address.
/m
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