On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:45:54PM -0500, Greg Cirino - Cirelle
Enterprises wrote:
| |
| | "MAIL FROM" aka. "envelope from" refers to the MAIL FROM: <xxx>
| | command issued from one SMTP to another, and is different from the
| | "From:" header in the mail. Basically all headers (From, To, Cc,
| | Received, etc) are part of the DATA command and could possibly be
| | different (either forged or just different for some reason).
| |
| | The exception is often "Return-Path:" especially if it is near the top
| | of the message, it was probably added by your own mailer, and
| | probably matches the envelope from address. (The exception is MAIL
| | FROM: <> which may appear as Return-Path:
<MAILER-DAEMON(_at_)your(_dot_)system>)
--Meng Weng Wong <mengwong(_at_)dumbo(_dot_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
Can people please suggest a way for me to improve the online
documentation to clarify and emphasize the distinction betwen envelope
"MAIL FROM" and header "From:"?
Feel free to copy what I wrote (or browse the archives for something)...
though I'm sure there must be a faq out there somewhere we could link to.
--
Greg Connor <gconnor(_at_)nekodojo(_dot_)org>