Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2014, Timothy Murphy sent: > All the email I get contains headers like > ---------------------------------------- > Delivered-To: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Received: from localhost (alfred.gayleard.eu [127.0.0.1]) by alfred.gayleard.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4C622D57 for <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:15:24 +0200 (CEST) > Received: from alfred.gayleard.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (alfred.gayleard.eu [127.0.0.1]) FrqMz92sTpCb for <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:15:02 +0200 (CEST) > Received: from alfred.gayleard.eu (alfred.gayleard.eu [127.0.0.1]) by alfred.gayleard.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id > ---------------------------------------- > > Which of these describes where "mail is sent to"? > I actually get all my email by fetchmail from various mail servers. > None of my mail is addressed by the sender to "*.gayleard.eu". > So it seems to me these headers must be added by postfix > or possibly by fetchmail. Mail headers are written upside down. That is, the original message (before you send it) has no headers, as it goes out, headers are written above it. As it goes through any further mail processing, they write their headers above the prior ones. Each step of the way writes their own headers above the prior ones. Once a mail server gets its hands on a message where its aliasing table has been used to say that mail for user@xxxxxxxxxxx will be delivered to user@localhost, that new recipient address will appear in the headers. Above all that, you /may/ see an envelope or delivered to header which states which mailbox it finally went to before you got it. It shows where the message was meant to be sent, even if not addressed "to" that address (such as list mail, addressed *to* the list). It's not always there, some services don't leave it in. Your headers look confusing to me, but I don't know if the mail is going through several processes on your machine. Nor whether it's coming in on LAN address where the same hostname is being applied to the external IP as well as the localhost IP. Long ago I prevented any machines, on my LAN, from ever applying their hostname to 127.0.0.1, as well. It caused all manner of confusion. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
