On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Donovan, Laura wrote:
> Any idea how the To address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is not appearing in
> the message header?
Because the To: header is part of the RFC822 headers, while the delivery
involves the RFC821 "mail from:" and "rcpt to:" headers. Consider this
telnet exchange
telnet allspice 25
Trying 192.168.16.20...
Connected to allspice.e-smith.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 e-smith.net ESMTP
helo risotto
250 e-smith.net
RFC821 mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 ok
RFC821 rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
250 ok
data
354 go ahead
RFC822 Subject: no other headers here
bye now
.
250 ok 969477228 qp 26202
quit
221 e-smith.net
Connection closed by foreign host.
The message was delivered to the recipient as specified by the RFC821
rcpt to: header above. The delivery has nothing to do with the headers
that you see when you actually read the message. That's how spammers
can send mail to you, even though it looks like it should have been
sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail will deliver the message with a Return-Path: RFC822 header that
contains the information contained in the RFC821 mail from: header.
--
Regards
Peter
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Peter Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.e-smith.org (development) http://www.e-smith.com (corporate)
Phone: +1 613 368 4398 Fax: +1 613 564 7739
e-smith, inc. 1500-150 Metcalfe St, Ottawa, ON K2P 1P1 Canada
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