Re: May be forged?

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero redhat de>]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Gustav Schaffter wrote:

> In most (all?) emails I receive from this list I find the following (or
> eq.) line in the mail headers:
> 
> Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com
> (IDENT:root lacrosse corp redhat com [172.16.44.154] (may be forged)) by
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Since the IP and hostname are in the intranet and not visible from 
outside, the authenticity can't be verified, therefore the real origin of 
the Received line (which is genuine) can't be verified (and might as well 
be some forged line, in the opinion of your MTA).

LLaP
bero


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