Thanks....
Who was it that said, "It's not the things you don't know
that are so bad -- but rather the things you do know that
are wrong." Or something like that....
-P.
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, 4:12pm -0700, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience;
> [log in to unmask] | experience comes from bad judgment.
> | -- Mark Twain
>
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