Re: email mess - maybe OT or not

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On Wednesday 20 October 2021 02:33:01 Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 06:41:17PM -0700, William Morder via tde-users 
wrote:
> > Now here is the actual "problem": I have another friend (person B)
> > who is not a member of the list. When she recently sent me an email
> > from her phone, the private email address of this first person
> > (person A, a member of the list) showed up in her (person B's) email
> > headers.
>
> Which headers? Are you talking about person A's address showing up as
> the From address of person B's emails? Or some other header?
>
> > There is absolutely no other
> > connection between these two persons, except of course for myself.
>
> There definitely seems to be something odd with your email headers.
> I've had a *very* brief look at a few, and:
>
> 1. Fresh emails from you starting a new thread often contain an
> In-Reply-To and Reference header. For instance, in one fresh email
> from you back in 2020, it included an In-Reply-To pointing to
>
>     201802171815.09906.gheskett@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> which seems to be an email from 2018.
>
> 2. When you reply to an existing email, the Reference header refers to
> somebody *other* than the person whose email you replied to.
>
> 3. And your emails have what look to me like corrupt header lines,
> such as this one:
>
>    
> +h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mim
>e-version:content-type:message-id;
>
> which nobody else seems to have (at least not in my brief
> investigation). The leading + sign is actually a space or newline.
>
> So something is not happy in your emails.

Where would I check that?, I'll see if I can fix it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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