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Re: Received headers (was Re: Bluenose email)

No, not quite. Most do not. They start this "Received: " sequence from the
server your e-mail client connects to while Gmail just gives away your home
IP address.

Regards,

-- 
Dmitriy

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 05:15:08PM -0400, Dianne Skoll via linux wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:08:36 -0400
> Dmitriy Korovkin via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:
> 
> > Still, Gmail discloses your IP address to your e-mail recipient, which is
> > not that good when you send something to mailing list like this:
> 
> Don't all SMTP servers do that?  Adding a Received: header is a MUST
> requirement in RFC 5321 (though inclusion of the IP address is only a
> SHOULD):
> 
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5321/#section-4.4
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dianne.
> 
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