The "To" line that you see in your email has little or nothing to do with the Address/Domain that the email was delivered to.
Consider the following example. I telnet'd into the SMTP port of my own mailserver. In this example, the mail will be delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the rcpt to), but the email client will show that it was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the "To:" line in the "Data" segment). The email server doesn't typically look at the Data segment -- that's left to the email client. There is nothing that says that anything in the Data segment has to match anything in the helo, mail from, or mail to segments. Mike Burden Lynk Systems http://www.lynk.com (616)532-4985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] lynk4300$ telnet mail.lynk.com 25 Trying mail.lynk.com... Connected to mail.lynk.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 SMTP ready. helo heaven.org 250 OK mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 OK rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 OK data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test This is a test. . 250 OK quit 221 Closing connection. Connection closed by foreign host. > -----Original Message----- > From: Suresh Ganu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:15 PM > To: 'GNATBOX Forum' > Subject: Spam E-mail > > > --------------------- Attention ----------------------------- > A digest version of this list is now available. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the following message: > subscribe gb-users-digest your_email_address > Then unsubscribe from this list. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > GNAT Box User Forum http://www.gnatbox.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi > Send postings to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Access the list archives at: http://www.gnatbox.com/gb-users/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > I have been using GnatBox GB100(3.1.3) and E-mail proxy for > atleast two > years > > E-mail proxy has been set-up to accept e-mail only for my > published domains. > It has worked fine so far and according to logs, that's the > only e-mail > making to my e-mail server on the protected network. > > Now suddenly I am getting e-mail addressed to something like > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > WHY? Any clues? > > Thanks.. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe gb-users your_email_address > in the body of the message >
