I would like someone to explain a strange thing that is happening with my incoming mail.
There is a group of email addresses that could well be on a contact list. I have a evolution contact list with those e-mail addresses on them.
I am getting a series of identical e-mail messages that are identified as coming from people on that list and seem to be addressed to an e-mail address that is not one I am familiar with. Despite that on the surface the e-mail is not coming to me the first line in the header reads: X-Apparently-To: akonstam@sbcglobal.net via 67.195.15.110; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:47:30 -0700
Others on the contact list are getting the same message.
What in the e-mail headers would allow me to identify what is going on? Or how this is happening?
On 04/17/2012 04:50 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I would like someone to explain a strange thing that is happening with my incoming mail.
There is a group of email addresses that could well be on a contact list. I have a evolution contact list with those e-mail addresses on them.
I am getting a series of identical e-mail messages that are identified as coming from people on that list and seem to be addressed to an e-mail address that is not one I am familiar with. Despite that on the surface the e-mail is not coming to me the first line in the header reads: X-Apparently-To: akonstam@sbcglobal.net via 67.195.15.110; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:47:30 -0700
Others on the contact list are getting the same message.
What in the e-mail headers would allow me to identify what is going on? Or how this is happening?
I think you are saying that you don't see yourself on the To: or Cc: list...but you are receiving the email. Correct?
If so, this is because you were listed as a Bcc: when the email was sent. Your address was in the RCPT list of the SMTP envelope. Under certain circumstances, usually when no To: is in the header, some email servers will add the X-Apparently-To header to the message. This behavior is most noted with SPAM sent by robots.
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 06:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/17/2012 04:50 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I would like someone to explain a strange thing that is happening with my incoming mail.
There is a group of email addresses that could well be on a contact list. I have a evolution contact list with those e-mail addresses on them.
I am getting a series of identical e-mail messages that are identified as coming from people on that list and seem to be addressed to an e-mail address that is not one I am familiar with. Despite that on the surface the e-mail is not coming to me the first line in the header reads: X-Apparently-To: akonstam@sbcglobal.net via 67.195.15.110; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:47:30 -0700
Others on the contact list are getting the same message.
What in the e-mail headers would allow me to identify what is going on? Or how this is happening?
I think you are saying that you don't see yourself on the To: or Cc: list...but you are receiving the email. Correct?
If so, this is because you were listed as a Bcc: when the email was sent. Your address was in the RCPT list of the SMTP envelope. Under certain circumstances, usually when no To: is in the header, some email servers will add the X-Apparently-To header to the message. This behavior is most noted with SPAM sent by robots.
Indeed. And BTW, it has nothing to do with Evolution per se.
poc
On 04/16/2012 03:47 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/17/2012 04:50 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I would like someone to explain a strange thing that is happening with my incoming mail.
There is a group of email addresses that could well be on a contact list. I have a evolution contact list with those e-mail addresses on them.
I am getting a series of identical e-mail messages that are identified as coming from people on that list and seem to be addressed to an e-mail address that is not one I am familiar with. Despite that on the surface the e-mail is not coming to me the first line in the header reads: X-Apparently-To: akonstam@sbcglobal.net via 67.195.15.110; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:47:30 -0700
Others on the contact list are getting the same message.
What in the e-mail headers would allow me to identify what is going on? Or how this is happening?
I think you are saying that you don't see yourself on the To: or Cc: list...but you are receiving the email. Correct?
If so, this is because you were listed as a Bcc: when the email was sent. Your address was in the RCPT list of the SMTP envelope. Under certain circumstances, usually when no To: is in the header, some email servers will add the X-Apparently-To header to the message. This behavior is most noted with SPAM sent by robots.
And indeed the "via 67.195.15.110" bit indicates the mail came from a Yahoo server:
[root@prophead ~]# host 67.195.15.110 110.15.195.67.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer web180512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - To err is human, to moo bovine. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 17:12 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 04/16/2012 03:47 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/17/2012 04:50 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I would like someone to explain a strange thing that is happening with my incoming mail.
There is a group of email addresses that could well be on a contact list. I have a evolution contact list with those e-mail addresses on them.
I am getting a series of identical e-mail messages that are identified as coming from people on that list and seem to be addressed to an e-mail address that is not one I am familiar with. Despite that on the surface the e-mail is not coming to me the first line in the header reads: X-Apparently-To: akonstam@sbcglobal.net via 67.195.15.110; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:47:30 -0700
Others on the contact list are getting the same message.
What in the e-mail headers would allow me to identify what is going on? Or how this is happening?
I think you are saying that you don't see yourself on the To: or Cc: list...but you are receiving the email. Correct?
If so, this is because you were listed as a Bcc: when the email was sent. Your address was in the RCPT list of the SMTP envelope. Under certain circumstances, usually when no To: is in the header, some email servers will add the X-Apparently-To header to the message. This behavior is most noted with SPAM sent by robots.
And indeed the "via 67.195.15.110" bit indicates the mail came from a Yahoo server:
[root@prophead ~]# host 67.195.15.110 110.15.195.67.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer web180512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com.
I appreciate the responses. I should have considered the use of Bcc:. But the comment about the yahoo.com is a red herring. AT&T uses yahoo.com servers for both there POP and SMTP servers.
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 06:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Under certain circumstances, usually when no To: is in the header,
Or, when your own address isn't in there.
some email servers will add the X-Apparently-To header to the message.
That is, as far as I know, one of *your* mail servers (whether running on your own box, or your ISP's) doing it, rather than just any mail server handling mail addressed that way, as the mail went through it.
That way, if you drag in mail from several different mail accounts, you can use the header to tell which account this message came through.
I have seen some of my ISP's mail servers add such a header, or a similar one, to all mail sent to me, no matter how it was addressed. I'm not talking about the few mail servers which leave the outer envelope address in the headers, that's yet another thing.