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

> 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.

> We would highly appreciate if someone could guide us to configure the
> squid server so that the Live IP of the users would go in all the
> mails they send instead of the Squid Server's IP.

The mail isn't sent from the client, it's sent from the Hotmail servers.

Joost
Received on Mon Mar 21 2005 - 08:33:50 MST