Is someboby watching my mail?

[pr24]

This is truly a very strange story!!!

Earlier today I sent a mail to a guy(John), who has a hotmail account. The mail had some pictures attached, so it was rather big, about 1mb. A few minutes later I got a reply from Hotmail, the mail was to big for John's mailbox.

The mail was sent from my account @sensewave.com. The strange thing is, the reply from Hotmail was sent to my adress @operamail.com.

Then I tried to send the mail again, and the same thing happened. Sent it from sensewave to hotmail, got reply to operamail.

I can not figure out how theese two adresses were linket together. I have never had an adress @hotmail.com, and I've been VERY careful with my adress @operamail.com.

John don't even know that I've got an adress @operamail. I'm on XP Pro, and Mozilla Thunderbird as mail client if that should matter.

Somebody smarter than me here??

 

[RayMunro]

Do you have both addresses as e-mail accounts? Is opera set as default? If it is, then that may be why.

Ray

 

[pr24]

Just figured it out.
Mail from all my 3 accounts are sent through opera's SMTPX. The "From" field reflects the account it was sent from, but the hidden part of the mail header displays my adress @operamail.com.

I'm not sure when this information is added, could be the mail client, but could also be opera's mail server.

Still, it's strange that Hotmail picks the "hidden" mail adress when returns are sent to me!

 

[WizyWyg]

If its anywhere that says as the Reply-To address, Hotmail will ignore the From address.

 

[pr24]

OK, than I learned something new today as well.
Thank you!

 

[sabrinaduncan]

Since the passage of the PATRIOT Act, the feds have been watching everyone's e-mail.

 

[cdlvj]

sabrinaduncan,

At least those whom they suspect.
I have always wondered that to monitor all emails would pretty much be impossible.
At one of the gov installations , they were trying to monitor each tranaction to their

http://www/http

ports so they could look for funny stuff coming in, and evaluate it.

Well, when it was tested it could not keep up with the 1st 10 minutes of data, as it was comming in so fast that the dbloads were failing.

They want you to believe that they are monitoring everything.