On Monday 15 Nov 2010, Pats wrote: > When we see an email in a ordinary text editor, we can see many lines > which are NOT seen while reading an email in inbox. Such email text > is shown below: > [snip]
Those are headers, which provide information or meta-data about the actual message. Standard headers are defined in RFC 5322. Every mail server the message passes through can also add its own custom headers for information; custom headers must have a name prefixed by the string "X-". For instance: > To: linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net is the standard To: header, which tells your mail client whom the message was sent to. On the other hand: > X-Originating-IP: [216.34.181.88] is a custom header probably inserted by Yahoo which gives the original IP address the message was received from. Since each mail server can insert its own custom headers, there is no standardisation on those. However, some are so common that they have become de-facto standards. Please see section 3.6 in RFC 5322 for more information about the standard mail headers. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
