Security Basics: RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail..

[Mike Smith <cobaltdude2002 () yahoo com>]

And did anyone actually try a traceroute to "snow.email.ne.jp".....I
couldn't find it anywhere - but I didn't try that hard to locate it.
My 2 cents, he's on the spam-gang fast-track.
And we *will* come for him in the night....


--- Matthew Schlosser wrote:
> Of course, if you are training to be a spammer we will come for you
> in the
> night.
>
> :)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chort 
> > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:42 AM
> > To: powderkeg () snow email ne jp
> > Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Re: Hiding IP in E-Mail..
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:26, Mark Sargent wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm rather a newbie at all this. How do I hide my IP when
> > sending/getting
> > > e-mail from the server and from the recipient(s) of the
> > e-mails..? Cheers.
> > > Mark Sargent.
> > You really can't.  The IP is added by your mail server.  The only
> way
> > you could change this would be on your e-mail server, but you
> > could only
> > remove the Received: headers that existed prior to your mail server
> > sending the message out.  When the next mail server receives
> > the e-mail,
> > it will add the IP of your mail server to the message and
> > there's zilch
> > you can do about it.
> >
> > If internal IPs are super secret I suggest hiding them with a
> proxy.
> > --
> > Brian Keefer

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