I'm sure someone can correct me, but I think the ID is currently based on
the system time and the inode number of the file or something like that -
which forces uniqueness even in a system with multiple processors - as long
as the messages are on the same filesystem.
It's got nothing to do with IP.
What I have been hoping for (similarly to you, but for different reasons)
was creating a way to associate all log entries from a particular message
submission TO that message submission.
Like one mail submission is delivered 50 times... I want to count those
bytes, etc. But the fact that the ID seems to get assigned later seems to
prevent that - I have been looking at hacks to the submit process, etc. to
cause more log info to be dumped so I could make the connections, but
nothing yet.
Is there a suggested way? (anyone else attempting similar?)
thanks.
m/
-----Original Message-----
From: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:cour...@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jerry
Amundson
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:32 PM
To: cour...@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [courier-users] Re: message id, ip address relationship?
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Jerry Amundson writes:
Sometimes, particularly when hunting spammers, I need to associate an
IP address with the delivery of a message. Can the IP somehow be
discerned from the msgid? For example, of the two starts of
courieresmtpd below, which is responsible for the message?
Mar 10 10:07:26 arsenic courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:66.205.200.238]
Mar 10 10:07:33 arsenic courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:66.205.204.17]
Mar 10 10:07:34 arsenic courierd: newmsg,id=001674CE.3E6CB846.0000413E
Mar 10 10:07:34 arsenic courierd:
started,id=001674CE.3E6CB846.0000413E,from=<mrpr...@mrpreview.blueturn.net
,module=local,host=tomw!!5070!100!/users/tomw!!,addr=<tomw>
You can look at the headers of the message to determine which IP address
it came from.
... and it's been POP3 downloaded to a client PC. I didn't want to have
to involve the end-user.
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