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e-mail header

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e-mail header

(1) The text at the beginning of an Internet e-mail message. It is generated by the client mail program that first sends it and by all the mail servers en route to the destination. Each node adds more text, including from/to addresses, subject, content type, time stamp and identification data. You can trace the path of the message from source to destination by reviewing the e-mail header text.

(2) The from/to, subject, cc: and bcc: fields of an e-mail message. See cc and bcc.

(3) The actual SMTP header in an e-mail message that is placed in front of the message.



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Source Authentication achieves that goal by forcing e-mail to come from the real owner of the address that is in the "Return-Path:" portion of the e-mail header.
Multi-byte e-mail header encoding to more effectively reach non-English speakers with "From" and "Subject" line content that is displayed in international language character sets;
Berkeley, Allman developed sendmail, a mail transfer agent (MTA) designed to deliver email over the still relatively small (compared to today's Internet) ARPANET, which consisted of many smaller networks with vastly differing formats for e-mail headers.
 
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