On Sep 12, 2004, at 2:51 am, "Larry le Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My wife keeps on getting spam which aren't actually addressed to her.
Some spammers use the bcc (blind carbon copy) field to address spam.
The From, To, cc, bcc, xcc (and other) headers you see are ALL *artificial* (and therefore forgable). When an email message is sent from a mail client to a SMTP server, it hands the server the destination addresses *separately*. IOW, there is NO requirement that YOUR email address appear anywhere in any email you receive! Nor is there any requirement that you be actually sent an email just because your address appears in a visual header!
Sounds kindof bizarre for email to be done this way... But remember, when the original SMTP specifications were designed, the 'net was a lot more easy going. The visual headers were left out of the spec to permit client software developers to create whatever made their own customers comfortable and still use a common transport mechanism.
FWIW, - Dan.
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