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On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:17:22PM +0000, Antony Stone wrote:

> I suspect (although one can never be sure) that this person is not looking for 
> the IPs of the inbound mail servers for Yahoo & Hotmail, but wants to know 
> from which IPs mail from those domains will be sent.
> 
> I guess this simply because of the word "prerouting" in the question - it 
> implies to me packets coming in to the netfilter machine, rather than those 
> leaving it and going to the MX systems.

Yes. Your explanation sounds logical and I just examined the incoming emails
from yahoo and they seem to come from webXXXXX.mail.yahoo.com. And, hey, they
run qmail (another victory for qmail).

Ramin

> 
> Any further information from zynkx would be useful :)
> 
> Antony.