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sequence of Received: headers

2002-08-26 19:51:29
Udi remembered reading somewhere that spammers sometimes put Received: headers
onto a message out of the usual sequence (which is to add them at the top, so
that as you read through the headers of a message you'll see the Received:'s
from most recent through to the oldest).  Well, spammers do falsify Received:
headers, telling lies about what system accepted the message from what other
system and when it happened.  But the topmost Received: is going to be the one
put there by your own ISP or your own box, and it won't be affected by the
practices of spamhauses, so if you don't have a From_ line you can still use
the topmost Received: to determine the date and time when the message arrived,
even if some of the other Received: headers farther down may not be reliable
and may even show dates and times in the future.



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