Evolution mail mystery

[Rick Stevens]

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 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.

And indeed the "via 67.195.15.110" bit indicates the mail came from a
Yahoo server:

[root at prophead ~]# host 67.195.15.110
110.15.195.67.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer web180512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com.
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