Jim Graham wrote:
> And in some cases, it doesn't..... At home, every e-mail that comes in
> >from outside addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e., it doesn't
> matter whether it's addressed to me, root, etc.) starts with
>
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] .....
>
> Mail delivery to my machine (except for one certain address that's
> handled via POP) looks something like this:
>
> incoming via UUCP --> sendmail --> procmail --> disk
>
> At some point between the message being received via UUCP and procmail
> actually starting to work with it, the original envelope "From " is
> lost and is replaced with the one above. So basically, I wouldn't trust
> it for anything.
Some delivery systems move this information into a "Return-Path"
headerfield. Check for that.
Cheers,
Stan
