🚀 go-pugleaf

Graham E Kinns <Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <901303977snz@isis.demon.co.uk>
>            ian@isis.demon.co.uk "Ian Smith" writes:
>>On Wednesday, in article
>>     <Snews.980722.201325.chris.10775@keris.demon.co.uk>
>>     chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:
>>> I have to be, since Demon don't have a phone access in Germany, so I
>>> have to use POP3 to get at my mailboxes.  If DEmon had implemented the 
>>> idea I remember being proposed (adding an X-POP3-Mailbox header) then
>>> I could d/l everything for keris.dcu and then filter it, but that seems
>>> to have died.
>>Did it ever live ?  I thought that was more of a wish-list thing.
>>Why can't you filter on the To: line ?
> 'cause the To: line doesn't necessarily represent who the mail was 
> destined for when it arrived at Demon.
> Parsing the first Received: header works though if you don't want to
> resort to *ENV.

I can't speak for Demon as I've never used its POP3 service, but in my 
experience of other POP3 accounts the received line is a good, but by no
means perfect method of finding the recipient of a message. I currently
check the Recieved:, To: & CC: headers, in that order of preference, and
there are still messages which get through without a recipient on my system.

J.