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Re: Confusing 'Received' Header

From: John Groseclose (iaincaradoc.org)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 18:41:33 CDT


Quoting Andrew Boothman <andrewmux.org.uk>:

> Hi!
>
> For some reason connections to a postfix 2.1.1 box running on my lan
> from a host called spatula.flat seem to have a confusing Received header
> added.
>
> Once such example is:
>
> Received: from [127.0.0.1] (spatula.flat [192.168.0.2])
> by myriad.flat (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0BE2D8
> for <andrewmux.org.uk>; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 22:06:39 +0100 (BST)
>
> Why does the initial IP address 127.0.0.1 show up? The connection wasn't
> from 127.0.0.1, the correct hostname and IP are shown in brackets after.

Do you have a content_filter inlined in master.cf? You're describing a common
effect of the reinjection after the filter.

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