Re: spam got past my blocks - how?

Craig Sanders wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 02:40:13PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>
>
>>>>Received: from web61310.mail.yahoo.com (web61310.mail.yahoo.com
>>>>[216.155.196.153])
>>>> by mail.amfes.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 373D32010FF
>>>> for <sales@amfes.com>; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:27:52 -0700 (PDT)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>>
>>Yes, I found that in the logs - but no mention of it in the message
>>headers, where I would normally see it.
>>
>>
>
>the To: header is a comment, it is not delivery instruction - you don't always
>see the recipient address in the To: header (take this message for instance -
>the To: header refers to the list, and there is no mention of your address in
>the headers, but a copy is delivered to you).
>
>with SMTP, it is the *envelope* addressing that is important, not the headers.
>i.e. "RCPT TO:<sales@amfes.com>" in the SMTP session.
>
>
Shows how little I know about SMTP - thank you. I still don't
understand why this message appears to not have been processed by any of
my spam filters.

Daniel