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Re: [milter-greylist] how to parse back through forwarding headers to find the true source IP

2016-12-11 by manu@...

Marcus Schopen lists-yahoogroups@... [milter-greylist]
<milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> some of my users forward external mails to my host. In some cases those
> forwarding hosts don't filter spam. How do I parse back through
> forwarding headers to find the true source IP and run dnsrbl checks on
> that IP. Possible with milter-greylist?

Possible if the forwarding host is ind enough to provide the
information.

Most of the time the information can be found in Received headers.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

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