Vidiot wrote:
> >Can a trace (just as in traceroute) be placed on an email address as
> >it goes about the Internet?
>
> No.
>
> Now, for the clarification. While you cannot trace the route it takes
> through the internet, you can see the machines that handled it by looking
> at the complete header. This only works for stuff sent to you, or copies
> of headers you have sent back to you from the people receiving your e-mail.
>
> Besides, why do you care which routers the path takes? As long as it
> gets there, who cares.
Besides, these days mail isn't routed the way it used to be. Mail
servers needed to pass messages around like a relay race. Now it's
a "direct" path -- a traceroute from your mail server to the recipient's
mail server is the path the mail will take at that moment. (If it's
small enough, etc. You get the idea.)
-W-
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