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echo: nthelp
to: Rich Gauszka
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2005-03-09 17:57:48
subject: Re: Real or bogus

From: Mike '/m' 

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:12:59 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
>news:opsndzb4sx2hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...
>> Bob,
>>
>> Moreover - your internal, non-routeable IPaddress is in every email you
>> send.
>>
>> - Thees Peereboom
>>
>
>
>?
>
>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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