Hi, Thanks to you both. Great information.
>btw: Most email client allows you to see the message source. Just have a look at a few messages you've received. Yeah. I was worried I would release the program and some client would reply with something different and then I would be in the position to support 20,000 variations. My program sends the alarm but my program does not send the reply. I have no control over that side. It could be a telephone with email that is replying. The person receiving the alarm will just need to reply to the email. So, it appears I might need to embed a unique string in the body of the message and use that to determine the responder. Ciao, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DZ-Jay Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 7:36 AM To: ICS support mailing Subject: Re: [twsocket] TPop3Cli header... Zayin, Is the alarm being sent by your application? If so, the best thing to do (and what is commonly done) is for your application to create a new header. For example, you could create something like "X-Alarm-Sender". Although e-mail message headers have common standards, there is no obligation to follow them, and there is really no technical restriction, limitation, or enforcement at all, so any mail program is free to add any header it wants to, or use none at all. It just so happen that most mail programs use the "standard" ones, but this is by convention. Because of this, you can never be sure of any particular header to be included or spelled in a specific way, but the message may still be valid. But if your applications are the ones that are sending and receiving the messages, you can virtually guarantee the contents--this is why you should invent a new header for your purposes. Now, to answer your question: The headers are typically in English. The "From" and "Received" headers are used by mail clients around the world to determine the sender, so the convention is to spell them as such, in English, regardless of the nationality. I hope this helps. dZ. On Oct 19, 2008, at 07:15, zayin wrote: > > Are the headers always in English? > > I need to search the header for the senders email address to > acknowledge the alarm. So, I am looking for a starting marker and > ending marker for the email address. > > Are 'From:' and 'Received:' always in English or will they be > translated to German if the pop3 server is in Germany? > -- DZ-Jay [TeamICS] http://www.overbyte.be/eng/overbyte/teamics.html -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
