Fetchmail and MailScanner question

[Lush, Richard]

Thanks Roland, I guessed that might have been the answer but am pretty
new to fetchmail and mailscanner.

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Ehle [mailto:novirus at CARLO65.DE] 
Sent: 08 November 2002 11:41
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Fetchmail and MailScanner question


Hi Richard,

Am Fre, 2002-11-08 um 10.33 schrieb Lush, Richard:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using fetchmail to collect emails from my ISPs and then 
> MailScanner to scan them and send them on to my exchange server.  The 
> question I have is on the IP headers.
>
> You can see here the information I am getting on the spam messages.  
> I'm getting 127.0.0.1 and in brackets the real domain name of the 
> sender.

afaik there is no solution for this. When you use fetchmail, the sender
is always localhost. Eplanation: fetchmail picks up the mail and sends
it via smtp to the local recipient. But, concerning Dave Whiles MRTG
script, I have a proposal: in my eyes it seems to be better to have the
senders address instead of the sending SMTP-Server in the log and
access-list. I have customers, who forward their mails from their
free-mail accounts, such as yahoo, web.de, gmx, to their accounts on my
server. When I first used the script I had suddenly yahoo Mailservers on
my access list.

Regards,
Roland