Peter Shenkin writes:
> And I misspoke; of course, the From: can be spoofed. But
> I thought that the To: had to be present in plain text
> in order for the mail to be delivered. If I'm wrong about
> this, then it's not misspeaking, but plain, old-fashioned
> ignorance (of which I have my share).
You are wrong about that. But be comforted that we all have our share
on plenty of subjects. No particular reason that we all need to be
experts in the business of smtp.
The recipient's email address doesn't have to appear *ANYWHERE* in the
body. Try sending some email and bcc'ing a friend's account, assuming
that your mailer supports bcc. Then try to find your friend's email
address anywhere in either the bodu or headers of what arrives at his
system. Won't be there. It will have been communicated separately
via the smtp protocol.
For that matter, try to find your email address in the headers of
email that you get through this mailing list. Wonder how it actually
made its way to your system even though your address presumablt
doesn't appear in the headers? Through the same smtp mechanism.
This is all off topic, but I hate to let factual misconceptions stand.
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