miss addressed mail

[Mike Witt]

Thanks Paul. I've been confused about this for a while.
But a couple of tests convinced me that your description
of how this works is correct.

-Mike

> Not quite; it's because your mail server (Num9.Com) is only seeing a
> single
> recipient for this email, so it adds the "for" clause. If there was
> someone
> else with a @num9.com address on fedora-list, there would be multiple
> recipients for the mail and the "for" clause wouldn't be added by your
> mail
> server. It's your mail server that's adding this Received: header, not the
> originating mail server.
>
> (note: some mail servers, notably qmail, always send mail to a single
> recipient at a time even if there are multiple recipients for the mail at
> a
> domain, and others can be configured to do so. Whilst this is very
> inefficient, particularly for large messages, mail you receive from such
> mail
> servers should always cause your mail server to add the "for" clause in
> the
> Received: header)
>
> Paul.