Significance of "Envelope-to"

[Steve Wendt]

On Sun, 24 Oct 99 20:54:05, John Drabik wrote:

>   I received a message (unexpectedly), where I was *not* listed in
>either the "To:" list, or the "CC:" list, when looking at the message
>in PMMail, and with a raw text editor.  However, my e-mail account
>*is* listed in the "Envelope-to:" section.  My question is this: Is

I don't know the significance of the "Envelope-to:" header, but spammers (and 
legitimate mailings, too) frequently send mail that doesn't list the recipients in the 
To: or CC: fields.


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