Hi,

I have been getting some interesting (read nekked woman) emails from a scammer. Nothing new. It occured to me that I'd like to see the sender's IP address in a column in case I might want to report them to their ISP. I got this person's account closed within an hour! Woo hoo!

I also receive a few odd unfriendly emails and some could involve litigation (long story ... occupational hazards etc). IP addresses are quite helpful for security checks and to zone in on a specific person who, for example, claims to be from Melbourne when they are really from Russia.

I'm not exactly up to date on such things but from the little I know, the longer you wait to check an IP address then it's value rapidly declines especially if people are allocated dynamic IP's (as I am).

Still, by matching a record with the host ISP the chances of getting scammers shut down increases ... I hope.

Just a thought.

BTW - is there any way to use MWP with other user accounts on the same PC (XP PRO)? I have a couple of accounts (all my own) on my PC. Each deals with specific purposes - work, play etc. Each can have different email addresses but for the most part, I'd like to see messages from all addresses no matter which OS account I use. MWP won't let me ... as in, I need to buy a new licence for each account on the PC. Odd. Am I doing something really wrong? (Not concerned with paying for extra licences ... happy too. Just not excited in keeping track of them on the same system over time.)

I so love this product. Great work, guys.

Mike
Australia

You just need to paste the registration key into MW running on each of the other user accounts, it stores its info in a user key, not the system key in the registry. One payment covers all users on a PC or one user on more than one computer but only one at a time. The details are somewhere on the firetrust website.

Doing a column for the correct IP and dodging all the spammer's spoofing is a tough job. I just report stuff to spamcop.net using the built in MW option and let them sort out the real source.

You can toggle to Source View and pick the IP out fairly quickly if that is all you need and are good at reading headers.