Whitelist Problem

[Peter Peters]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:31:37 PST, you wrote:

>Return-Path: <owner-mailscanner at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>

This is taken from the enveloppe sender (mail from:).

>Received: from smtp.jiscmail.ac.uk (smtp.jiscmail.ac.uk [130.246.192.48])
>          by netlx010.civ.utwente.nl (8.11.4/HKD) with ESMTP id g7D3s7E10837
>          for <P.G.M.Peters at CIV.UTWENTE.NL>; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:54:07 +0200

This address was present in the enveloppe header as the recipient (rcpt
to:)

>From: Nathan Johanson <nathan at tcpnetworks.net>

This is the From: header in the message.

>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

And this is the To: header in the message.

>X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>X-UTwente-MailScanner-SpamCheck: RFC-IGNORANT-WHOIS
>
>Is it possible for someone to illustrate the difference between the
>"envelope sender address" versus the "From" header?
>
>Maybe grab a full email header, paste it into a reply to the list, and
>point out which is which? This seems like a recurring question and now
>I'm even beginning to question my own understanding of it. it might even
>be a good item for the FAQ. If I was convinced I understood it, I would
>write it myself :)

I included the relevant headers from your mail message. :-)

And the correspondenting log-lines (removed irrelevant information):
|g7D3s7E10837: from=<owner-mailscanner at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>,
|g7D3s7E10837: to=<P.G.M.Peters at CIV.UTWENTE.NL>, delay=00:00:00,

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Peter Peters
senior netwerkbeheerder,  Centrum voor Informatievoorziening,
Universiteit Twente,   Postbus 217,  7500 AE  Enschede
telefoon: +31 53 489 2301, fax:+31 53 489 2383, http://www.utwente.nl/civ