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C702 Email Header
C702 WGU Email Header
Term | Definition |
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Apparently-To | Messages with many recipients sometimes have a long list of headers of the form "Apparently-to: rth@bieberdordf.edu" |
Bcc | Blind carbon copy. Sends copies of e-mails to people who might want to receive replies or appear in the headers. Popular with spammers since they confuse many inexperienced users |
Cc | Carbon copy. Specifies additional recipients beyond those listed in the "To"header |
Comments | Some mailers add this header to identify the sender; however, spammers often add it by hand (with false information) |
Content-Transfer-Encoding | Relates to MIME, a standard way of enclosing non-text content in e-mail. It has no direct relevance to the delivery of mail, but it affects how MIME- compliant mail programs interpret the content of the message |
Content-Type | MIME header, which informs the MIME-compliant email programs regarding the type of content to expect in the message |
Date | Specifies a date of creation and sending of the email |
Errors-To | Specifies an address for mailer-generated errors, such as bounce messages and to go (instead of the sender's address). |
Message-Id | Specifies a unique ID associated with each message that the firl mail server coming across to the message generally assigns to it |
In-Reply-To | Usenet header that occasionally appears in mail, the "In-Reply-To" headers gives the message ID of the message to which it is replying. |
MIME-Version | MIME header that specifies the version of the MIME protocol used by the sender |
Newgroups | Appears in e-mail connected with Usenet-either e-mail copies of Usenet postings or e-mail replies to postings. It specifies the newgroup(s) to which the user had posted the reply message |
Organizaiton | An entirely free-form header that holds the name of the organization through which the sender of the message has net access. The sender can generally control this header |
References | Rare in e-mail except for copies of Usenet postings. It is used to identify the upstream posts to which a message is a response |
Priority | Free-form header that assigns a priority to the mail. Most of software ignores it. Spammers use it often in an attempt to get their messages read |
Reply-To | Specifies an address for sending replies. Used by spammers to deflect criticism. |
Sender | appears occasionally, mostly in copes of Usenet posts. It IDs the sender. more reliable identifier than the "From" line |
Subject | Completely free-form field specified by the sender to describe the subject of the message |
To | Specifies to who the message is addressed. Note that the "To" header does not always contain the recipient's address |