To: addresse is not my email address
 

Got an email from a friend and noticed that in the "To:" area was the
email address of some other person? ..but I still received it??
I know the sender but not the addresse.
How do I receive an email when the To: addresse is not my email
address?
Anyone??

addresse is not my email address
 

It's in the Bcc - which you cannot see.

--
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

"Monty" wrote in message
oups.com...
Got an email from a friend and noticed that in the "To:" area was the
email address of some other person? ..but I still received it??
I know the sender but not the addresse.
How do I receive an email when the To: addresse is not my email
address?
Anyone??

To: addresse is not my email address
 

On 18 Apr 2006 11:30:21 -0700, Monty wrote:

Got an email from a friend and noticed that in the "To:" area was the
email address of some other person? ..but I still received it??
I know the sender but not the addresse.
How do I receive an email when the To: addresse is not my email
address?
Anyone??

Email is sent to the SMTP "RCPT TO" email address. Most of the time, you
got the email from a mail client which uses the "Bcc:" field to suppress
SMTP "RCPT TO" email addresses.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

addresse is not my email address
 

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:54:07 -0400, Ted Zieglar wrote:

It's in the Bcc - which you cannot see.

Probably true in the OP's case, but what about this one?

| X-Message-Status: n:0
| X-SID-PRA: N. Miller
| X-SID-Result: TempError
| X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jFrteor5kBR/oJGARQKmAsWr9c8tRgn9vQ=
| Received: from smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.202]) by bay0-mc6-f6.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
| Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:04:12 -0700
| Received: (qmail 71145 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2006 00:04:12 -0000
| Received: from unknown (HELO aosake.net) with login)
| by smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2006 00:04:11 -0000
| Received: from Spooler by aosake.net (Mercury/32 v4.01b) ID MO000044;
| 18 Apr 2006 17:04:05 -0700
| Received: from spooler by aosake.net (Mercury/32 v4.01b); 18 Apr 2006 17:03:48 -0700
| From: "N. Miller"
| Organization:
| To:
| Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:03:29 -0700
| MIME-Version: 1.0
| Subject: [TEST] A long dead account revived?
| Priority: normal
| X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31)
| Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
| Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
| Content-description: Mail message body
| X-AC-Weight: [### ] -599
| X-CC-Diagnostic: Header Organization contains "Polka Dot Ranch" (-599)
| Message-ID:
| Return-Path:
| X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Apr 2006 00:04:12.0744 (UTC) FILETIME=[CA2BEC80:01C66344]
|
| This is just an alias trick on the MTA at 'aosake.net'.
|
| /

There is only one recipient email address, and that is a long defunct
domain; from back when there existed an on-line service called, "GENie"
(General Electric Network for Information Exchange). From the "Copies to
self" folder of Pegasus Mail (equivalent to the "Sent Items" folder of
MS Outlook Express):

| X-cs: R
| X-CS-Version: 1.0
| From: N. Miller
| X-RS-ID: Default
| X-RS-Flags: 0,0,1,1,0,0,0
| X-RS-Sigset: 1
| To:
| Subject: [TEST] A long dead account revived?
| MIME-Version: 1.0
| Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
| Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT
| Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:03:29 -0700
|
| This is just an alias trick on the MTA at 'aosake.net'.

As you can see: No "Bcc:" recipient. What happened here?

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

addresse is not my email address
 

Ok Ted, so how would I enable the Bcc so that it is visible?
Thanks in advance!

addresse is not my email address
 

You can't. The "B" stands for "blind". If you could make it visible, it
wouldn't be of any use.

--
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

"Monty" wrote in message
oups.com...
Ok Ted, so how would I enable the Bcc so that it is visible?
Thanks in advance!

addresse is not my email address
 

On 19 Apr 2006 09:19:00 -0700, Monty wrote:

Ok Ted, so how would I enable the Bcc so that it is visible?
Thanks in advance!

If you were to monitor the SMTP transaction between the sending SMTP
client and your provider's MX server, you would only see a single email
address in the transaction: Your email address as the SMTP "RCPT TO"
line. No other email address is transmitted in such a message, so no
other email address can be seen.

Most mail services don't pass the SMTP "RCPT TO" email address to the
receiving client, so you usually can't see your own email address in
such email.

Some which do:

Excite: Delivered-To:
Lycos: Delivered-To:
GMX Mail: Delivered-To: GMX delivery to
Yahoo! Mail: X-Apparently-To: via 66.218.79.25

Some which don't:

AOL, including AIM Mail, CompuServer, and Netscape Mail. Granted, I have
only tested AIM Mail, but all are handled by AOL MX servers,
presumably all are handled the same way.
Comcast.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum