Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid Server IP is forwarded with the users mail instead of his own IP

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Joost de Heer wrote:

>> We have observed that when emails are sent by our users through
>> Yahoo, Hotmail or other web-based mailing service the Originating IP
>> in their mail headers is that of the caching server on which Squid is
>> running. This makes it impossible for us to trace the originator of
>> that mail though the users have a live ip (as you would know tracing
>> the originator of the mail becomes necessary if the sender of email
>> has played any pranks or done anything illegal).
>
> Hotmail only sees the proxy-IP address, not the IP address of the client.
> If you want to find out who sent the Hotmail-mail, check the logs of
> Squid.

Hotmal could in theory include its message headers the contents of the
X-Forwarded-For HTTP header added by Squid and many other proxies to make
this easier.. (only works for http://, not https://)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Mar 21 2005 - 13:33:09 MST