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How to read email headers?

Can someone please point me to where I can find a complete reference to email headers (Date, From, To, Sender, etc.), if there is one?

+1  A: 

Might i recommend wikipedia's extensive article on the subject? The RFC's in the article should answer any questions you may have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Message_format

Caladain  2010-07-27 18:33:32
Wonderful, this is just what I needed to get started on this project. Thank you very much!
Tom  2010-07-27 18:35:39
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The full specification can be found in RFC822 or (more recent) in RFC2822.

cypheon  2010-07-27 18:34:12
You'd need RFC5322 as well. RF3864 too.
Caladain  2010-07-27 18:38:17
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The core header fields are described in RFC 5322. Futher header fields of MIME are described in RFC 2045 (general headers), RFC 2046 (media types), and RFC 2047 (non-ASCII text).

Gumbo  2010-07-27 18:37:44

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