Re: [Hampshire] Test 6/6 please ignore

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Author: Dee Earley
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Test 6/6 please ignore
On 16/05/2010 12:06, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Dee,
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 09:53:40PM +0100, Dee Earley wrote:
>> On 15/05/2010 20:12, Keith Edmunds wrote:
>>> Mail sent to you will have the mailbox it is sent to _somewhere_ in the
>>> headers (otherwise how do you suppose the mail gets to you?).
>>
>> By using details that are not passed as part of the headers.
>>
>> The SMTP protocol specifies a envelope to, from, and the data.
>> The data can be completely unrelated to who it is actually being
>> delivered to or from.
>
> But it's the envelope to we're discussing here.


I was commenting on the "how does it get to you" which is not via the
information in the headers.

>>    From your email (irrelevant headers stripped):
>> ====================================================
>> Return-Path:<hampshire-bounces@???>
>> Received: from mailman.lug.org.uk (mailman.lug.org.uk [217.147.93.71])
>>     by jane.earlsoft.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o4FJCaEo006421
>>     for<dee@???>; Sat, 15 May 2010 19:12:36 GMT

>
> Is dee@??? not the email address you're subscribed with?


Yes, my server happens to log it in the received headers, but it's not
guaranteed.
The point was that if my server (or any other between mailman and the
mailbox) didn't, then it wouldn't be in the headers at all.
Mailman does not list the destination.

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