Re: Email NOT Addressed to Me
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:11:29 -0500
"John R" <tooh@cox.net> wrote:
>With Windows XP Home Edition and OE I get several emails that are not
>specifically address to me. How is this possible?
Easily. You're looking at the "To:" header. As far as the SMTP server
(Simple Main Transport Protocol, these servers actually move mail from
one system to another), that's just part of the message and it makes
no difference what it says or even whether it exists. When the
originating machine talks to the SMTP server, it gives that server an
address or list of addresses to which the message is to be delivered,
(and optionally a CC and BCC list) and the body of the message. The
body is supposed to conform to standards that dictate the various
headers (To:, From:, Subject:, Date:, whatever else). Those headers
are used by the receiving email client - that is, your email program -
to alert its user to the message, but they play no part in actually
routing and delivering the message. They can be easily messed with.
--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov
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