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Re: interpreting email headers



Mail Headers are only half the story.

The relevant postfix log files are the other half.

Quite often I receive strange messages (usually spam) and need to look at my
exim logs to find out the whole story.

Andrew Tait
System Administrator
Country NetLink Pty, Ltd
E-Mail: andrewt@cnl.com.au
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"It's the smell! If there is such a thing." Agent Smith - The Matrix
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>
To: "Debian ISP" <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: interpreting email headers


> While I don't have any real answer (since I don't know exactly what you're
> looking for), I've included the headers of the email for all to see... so
> those of you who don't like opening attachments could respond as well.
>
> >From MAILER-DAEMON@coker.com.au Mon Jan 21 01:37:31 2002
> Return-Path: <>
> Delivered-To: rjc@sws.net.au
> Received: (qmail 23329 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2002 00:34:17 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO sws?sat.sws.net.au) (10.10.10.30)
>   by 10.10.10.8 with SMTP; 21 Jan 2002 00:34:17 -0000
> Received: from ivanova.coker.com.au (ivanova.coker.com.au [203.36.46.209])
>  by sws_sat.sws.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E647CA51
>  for <rjc@sws.net.au>; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:34:16 +1100 (EST)
> Received: by ivanova.coker.com.au (Postfix)
>  id 02D7CFAD2; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:34:15 +1100 (EST)
> Delivered-To: rjc@coker.com.au
> Received: from debianlinux.net (c88006.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.88.6])
>  (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits))
>  (Client did not present a certificate)
>  by ivanova.coker.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79134FB51
>  for <russell@coker.com.au>; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:34:04 +1100 (EST)
> Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>   (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1894.txt)
>   by debianlinux.net with dsn; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 01:37:31 +0100
> Message-ID: <courier.3C4B62CB.00004C77@debianlinux.net>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 01:37:31 +0100
> To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
> From: MAILER-DAEMON@coker.com.au
> Status: R
> X-Status: N
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>
> To: "Debian ISP" <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:44 AM
> Subject: interpreting email headers
>
>
> > I have attached a strange bounce message I received, and would like some
> > advice in understanding exactly what happened.
> >
> > I know that this is only barely on-topic, but I feel that the fact that
> it's
> > connected to debianlinux.net makes it worth mentioning here...
> >
> > --
> > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/     Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark
> > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/       Postal SMTP/POP benchmark
> > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on
> > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/     My home page
> >
>
>
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