Mail to cs.rutgers.edu

Mail to cs.rutgers.edu

I've been asked to clarify how you can determine whether mail you receive was addressed to you as username@cs.rutgers.edu. Mail to anyone at cs.rutgers.edu is delivered to dragon.rutgers.edu. dragon (as all mail servers) adds a "Received:" line to the headers of the message. By these headers, you can determine the route the message took from the sender to you.

Mail received by dragon will have a Received: line like

  Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net ([68.1.17.244] verified)
    by dragon.rutgers.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9)
    with ESMTP id 4365153 for watrous@cs.rutgers.edu; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:21:50 -0500
Note it says it was received by dragon.rutgers.edu. (For privacy reasons, the recipients will not be listed if there are more than one.)

Most mail readers will not show you the full headers in their normal configuration.


This page last updated October 31, 2002.