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Article #89How Can I Figure Out The Address To Which This Mail Was Sent?
From: Will Estes
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1992 20:42
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1992 20:42
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I need help to find out what address some mail is being sent to. I am subscribed to a Bitnet conference. I subscribed by sending a command to a server known as a listserv. The problem here is that these listservs, because they are on Bitnet, will typically register Internet users by an indirect address (e.g., westes%netcom.com@<bunch of stuff>...) Recently I switched userids here on Netcom. I asked the administrator of the Bitnet conference to add my new userid and delete the old one, since I know from hard experience that commands to a listserv to remove an Internet user seldom manage to find the user's address (obviously a bug in listserv). The administrator could not find my old address. And so now I am getting two copies of every post...one sent to my new address and one sent to my old address (which is now a mail alias for my new address). I thought it would easy enough to examine the RFC-822 header to see what userid my name had been stored under and pass this on to the administrator to delete. Alas, the header of the mail that I received does not seem to contain my address at all! Clearly there is something about distribution lists in RFC-822 that I do not understand. My question is: what can I do to determine the actual address to which this mail is being sent? The actual header is as follows:
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4424,47062a6dd62990f2,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4424,public X-Google-Thread: 11d1cf,47062a6dd62990f2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11d1cf,public X-Google-Thread: 113c94,47062a6dd62990f2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid113c94,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-07 06:42:33 PST Newsgroups: netcom.general,comp.mail.misc,bit.listserv.lstsrv-l Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!netcomsv!mork!westes From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) Subject: How Can I Figure Out The Address To Which This Mail Was Sent? Message-ID: <pfxh09jwestes@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 92 20:42:12 GMT Organization: Mail Group