Evolution mail mystery

[Ed Greshko]

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 at 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.


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