CC question

[Stephe Campbell]

Mr. Field,

How do I determine the envelop of the email. If I look at the message
source, with all the headers and everything, what part of that is the
envelop?

Anyway, if I can delete the original message using MS & SA, does that
prevent the CC recipients from being sent also? Where in the process of all
of this does the CC recipients get their email from. Somehow, with what
appears to be no "From" in the original message, the return-path is being
set to the original recipient, which makes all of the CC bounces come back
here, as though they were sent from the original recipient..

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: CC question


> At 19:36 20/03/2003, you wrote:
> >To any that may know
> >
> >Man, am I getting hit hard by someone with an email that includes CC
> >(carbon copy). I'm not sure how they are doing this, but the original
> >header usually has a blank from field, and is being sent to an expired
> >address (no longer valid).
> >
> >I can block the primary non-CC mail recipient with MS and SA ( I think ),
> >but what happens to the email going to the CC recipients? If I delete the
> >email based on a blacklisted "To" non CC address, will this also kill the
> >CC email also? The returned mail messages are around 500 a day and a
> >bother to others, I'm sure!
>
> MailScanner works solely on the message's real recipients (in the
> envelope), regardless of what may happen to be in the headers. The headers
> are not used to determine the delivery addresses, they are purely for user
> consumption. The "To:" and "Cc:" headers are irrelevant to MailScanner, as
> they are to the delivery process.
>
> If you want to block them, you need to see the real recipient addresses in
> your mail log.
> --
> Julian Field
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