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E-mail headers can be fun too. For example, Facebook e-mails up to this day contain:

X-Mailer: ZuckMail [version 1.00]

The X-Mailer header traditionally indicates the mail client that was used to send the e-mail.

Want to check if your friend who has "Sent from my iPhone" was really using an iPhone? Just look for "X-Mailer: iPhone Mail" (Of course, these headers can be arbitrarily set by a client, so this is not meant to be a definitive check.)



Who makes up "Sent from my iPhone" messages, and why?


I like when people subtly tweak their iPhone messages. A friend for a while used "Sent from my iPhome"




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