Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

2011-11-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
Uses bcc instead of cc or to. On 11/05/2011 12:19 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote: I'm getting much less SPAM in the last year or so (yay!) and I gather that's at least partly due to the shutdown of some botnets. And I hate to say anything positive about ComCast but I think another factor is that

Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

2011-11-06 Thread David Berube
My understanding is that the message headers are not looked at by the mail server; instead, it's the SMTP envelope that determines that. When the sending server is talking to your mail server, it sends a RCPT command, and that command specifies the recipient of the message; if there are

Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

2011-11-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
Yah, I had believed that the headers were consulted (rather than merely updated) as the message was transferred from server to server, but there's apparently some other (or additional) conversation taking place between the servers that governs routing. Yet more stuff to put on my list of

Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

2011-11-06 Thread Ric Werme
I'm getting much less SPAM in the last year or so (yay!) and I gather that's at least partly due to the shutdown of some botnets. And I hate to say anything positive about ComCast but I think another factor is that their filters are pretty good. I got tired of some of the spam I was getting

Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

2011-11-06 Thread Mike Bilow
It is important to understand that the message itself, including both the headers (such as From and To) and the body, can be transmitted in multiple ways other than Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and many of these systems, such as UUCP, were in widespread use historically. Because of