MySQL Student wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking an email that appears to be one of the users from the > whitelist, but instead was from: > > From probesqt...@segunitb1.freeserve.co.uk Mon Jul 27 19:49:19 2009 > > Why can't a comparison be made between the "From:" info and the actual > sender? Is this because of virtual domains and/or users? > It's not done because this mismatch happens for nearly every mailing list in existence (including this one).
Every message you get from this mailing list is "From:" the poster, but the envelope is from the apache list server's bounce handler. The To: header and Rcpt to: mismatch for similar reasons (To: will be the list, but RCPT TO will be your mailbox).
