-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:53:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, April 26, 2018 01:29:17 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:05:41PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > Yes, the message came from tomas, but the email you received came from > > > the list server. There will be a header at the top of your email > > > > > that's being hidden from you: > > Right. There's a "From" field at the very top, without a colon. In David's > > message I'm responding to right now, I see: > > > > From bounce-debian-user=tomas=tuxteam...@lists.debian.org Thu Apr 26 > > 05:06:37 2018 > > > > right at the top of the headers. This is added by your receiving > > MTA and is thus *the* one piece of information which is most > > reliable -- it's yout MTA's account of where (it thinks) the mail > > has come from. There are (in my case) a couple of other headers > > (at the top, too) added by my MTA. > > > I'm not trying to argue, but instead trying to check what I thought was my > knowledge:
Go ahead -- no one here is infallible, and I'm the least one :) > AFAIK, that From header is what I call the mbox header--it is added in . for > the mbox style of mail storage (many emails in one folder) and is used to > separate emails). That's right, mbox uses this one as marker. That's why a "naked" From at the beginning of a line, like this one: - From there and where gets "escaped" by prepending something (I think this is done by the mail delivery agent). > Two things: > ' > * in the other type of email storage (maildir--one email per file), I > suspect that header is not added I'm here "on" mbox, but I'd expect to have this line also in other civilised mail storages (perhaps excluding Exchange/Outlook, but hey do they count as civilised?) After all it conveys the only halfway reliable information you can get... > * I suspect that not all email clients put the same thing (the perceived > sender address) in that second field (between "From " and the date). > > If anyone can speak to those points, I'd be interested. Yeah, I'd be curious too. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlrhwgAACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYvmACfQZ70JnZifeNgF11LLP/TpuRT gf8An3Qk9XcCOXgYNFQt9Y6qymWcf4I2 =NBZ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
