[plug] Mail question

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Fri Dec 9 20:25:53 WST 2005


On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:37:34PM +0800, Timothy White wrote:
...
> > What?  No, most of the mail headers except the Received headers (and
> > Delivered-To headers if qmail is involved) are generated by the
> > sending MUA.
> 
> This was my understanding as well. And the Received and Delivered-To
> headers are no longer just qmail, also fetchmail and gmail and lots of
> others.

Received is added by any conforming MTA, being required by RFC 821 and
RFC 2821 (http://rfc.net/rfc2821.html).  Delivered-To is a qmail
extension.  I didn't know that other MTAs were adding it as well.




-- 
Russell Steicke

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