[ale] Another Email question Reading Headers.

H. A. Story adrin at bellsouth.net
Sat Jun 24 15:24:50 EDT 2006


Looking at this header from an email I just got.

Delivered-To: adrin at haswes.homelinux.org
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by PC002.haswes.homelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF04F176D12
	for <adrin at localhost>; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:31:11 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.17]
	by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.5.2)
	for adrin at localhost (single-drop); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:31:11 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from ibm15aec.bellsouth.net ([208.141.108.121])
          by imf02aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP
          id <20060624152806.LDLP2126.imf02aec.mail.bellsouth.net at ibm15aec.bellsouth.net>;
          Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:28:06 -0400
Received: from soaserver3.architecture.local ([208.141.108.121])
          by ibm15aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP
          id <20060624152803.SXCX22161.ibm15aec.bellsouth.net at soaserver3.architecture.local>;
          Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:28:03 -0400
Received: from hci1 ([68.33.211.140]) by soaserver3.architecture.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830);
	 Sat, 24 Jun 2006 10:28:01 -0500
From: "PayPal"<aw-confirms at paypal.com>
To: ale at ale.org

Granted I am running fetchmail. So I know where the first 2 "Received" came from.   But the next 3 throw me a little. 
The 3rd one must be a bellsouth server the received the email.  So the last two must be the account where the email came from 
or was relayed from???  The last looking like a exchange server???? the last receive being a comcast domain and number 4 being 
another domain that isn't bellsouth.  Now if they are blocking port 25????  How does this email get around that???? And the to: only
shows undisclosed-recipients.







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