Evolution mail mystery

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 06:47 +0800, 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.

Indeed. And BTW, it has nothing to do with Evolution per se.

poc