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		verroq on Sept 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Satoshi Nakamoto SourceForge account has been ... Gmail has NEVER included the IP in headers (you can easily check this yourself). Hotmail/Outlook on the other hand ...

kijin on Sept 9, 2014 | [–]

Depends on how you access Gmail. Webmail doesn't include your IP in the headers. SMTP does.

verroq on Sept 9, 2014 | | [–]

Ah ok. I've only ever used webmail, it makes sense SMTP would include the IP.

mkiehl on Sept 9, 2014 | [–]

This is not completly true. When using Gmail together with Google Apps, Gmail will include the sender's IP in the X-Originating-IP header.

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