Comment Re:Google doesn't send the sender IP in the header (Score 1) 46
I wasn't aware of this. I thought sender IP is generally send together with the email?
So gmail is good to be used by scammers cos victims will have to spend a bunch of money to subpoena google to get the IP (most of the time police don't do much in such cases, as I understand). And if you cleaned out a victim, they may not have the resources to get a lawyer anyway.
Good to know what "industry" gmails are good for.
The sender IP is for the originating SMTP server. The only time the local IP would be in the email is if you're operating your own server. This isn't just a Google thing, it's how the standards always worked. The user's web browser is just the interface. Back when the interface was a terminal, we never included the logged-in user's telephone number. The email headers are for troubleshooting purposes, not digital forensics. That's what server logs are for.