Evolution mail mystery

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 17:12 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: 
> 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.
   I appreciate the responses. I should have considered the use of Bcc:.
         But the comment about the yahoo.com is a red herring. AT&T uses
                  yahoo.com servers for both there POP and SMTP servers.


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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net