Re: Identify SMTP Server

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From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:36:51 -0500

"Curtis" <curtis(removethis)@landiscomputer.com>
wrote in news:Oe0$st0lEHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl:
> In outlook 2003 how can I view the SMTP server that was used to send a
> message I received?
>
> Regards,
> Curtis

You only see the message as your e-mail client composed it (headers and
body). You can't see to what SMTP server it got sent because your
e-mail client isn't on the other side of the SMTP server to capture its
headers that it adds to the copy of your e-mail that you sent. That
would be like asking why a Word document doesn't record what FTP server
was used to upload it to online storage on some file server.

Include yourself as a recipient of your message. When you get that
copy, it went through your SMTP server which added its headers. You can
then look at the Received headers.

I suppose you could turn on logging in the e-mail client but then you
would have to match up the date the message was sent to the timestamps
in the logfile. 

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