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| + | An email header contains information about who sent an email, to whom, when, how it got there, and so on. Most of this isn't critical to everyday email reading so email clients hide it. A full email header looks like this: | ||
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| + | by mail12.spammer.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP | ||
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| + | by sc8-sf-netmisc.spammer.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian))</ | ||
| + | id 1AKnVV-0006cp-00; | ||
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| + | id 1AKnVV-0000pn-00; | ||
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| + | From: "Joe Spammer" | ||
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| + | Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:37:41 -0800 | ||
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| + | **Note:** The three lines in bold were inserted (or modified) by POPFile before POPfile passed along the email to the mail client. For this example, both the [[Glossary: | ||
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| + | See also: | ||
| + | * [[Glossary: | ||
| + | * [[Glossary: | ||
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| + | * [[FAQ: | ||
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