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Subject:RE: What can you see in your reader? From:barry -dot- kieffer -at- exgate -dot- tek -dot- com To:jean -at- bjrcom -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:44:41 -0700
Greetings Jean,
The mail reader a person is using is only half the equation. The mail server
port or gateway has the option of changing the format, font, and signature
details.
For example, I use Microsoft Outlook. My "real address" for Outlook is
barry -dot- kieffer -at- exgate -dot- tek -dot- com -dot- When you post a message and the TECHWR-L
server sends it to me, the mail is sent to the address:
barry -dot- kieffer -at- tek -dot- com -dot-
At the "exgate" address I can see your signature info, but that is lost when
the message passes through the "tek" server.
It is WAY more complicated than that, but in a nutshell, that is what you
will run into. It is not the mail reader, but all of the mail servers,
converters, and what-not out there in cyberspace.
Regards,
And you probably cannot see my fancy signature either...
Barry Kieffer
Senior Technical Writer
Tektronix, Inc.
* Phone: 1.503.627.4079
* Email: barry -dot- kieffer -at- tek -dot- com
Jean asked:
> Can you tell me if which email reader you are using and whether you can
> see
> the following:
>
> -- My signature file at the end of this message.
> -- The email address I sent this message to.
> -- My email address in the From field.
> -- Email addresses in the CC field. I CC'd myself on this message.
>
> I
> BJR Communications, Inc.
> Portland, Oregon, USA
> voice: (503) 788-8998
>
