nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| reply to joewesh
Re: X-Originating-IP
No, you cannot rely on that.
If you receive the mail from hotmail or yahoo, then the top "X-Originating-IP:" appears to be accurate. But I have seen mail with more than one of these headers, and the ones not added by yahoo or hotmail were forged by the spammer.
The basic principle of examining headers:
•You can trust headers added by your own server (or your ISP server)•If those headers show that the mail was received from a trusted site (a site that you trust), then you can also rely on the headers added by that trusted site.
Be suspicious of anything else. |
