On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:16:10AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, David T-G wrote: > > > But it's used for message information, no? It becomes the ^From: line, > > or at least so it appears. That's why it's so easy to fake and so on, > > too, but it looks like whatever is put there would show up in the header. > > It's not the ^From: line. For example, when I send e-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], I think the SMTP transaction goes something like > this: > > $ telnet localhost 25 > HELO localhost > MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > DATA > From: Philip Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mutt Users' List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Where's the MAIL FROM line? > > Message text goes here. > . > > The "MAIL FROM" line is not necessarily the same as the ^From: line. In > mbox format, the former shows up as "From <user>[@<domain>] <date>" on the > first line of the message, but Maildir format doesn't have that.
Yup. -- Regards Cliff
