> In the "to" address is something that's not even remotely my email. Suppose I'm godelski@gmail.com, the "to" has something like "robbert01@gmail.com" and always has a CC with a different number.
You probably already know this, but the content of these headers is not relevant for email routing. The list of email addresses which will actually receive an email message can be found on the SMTP commands, which precede (and are independent from) the email headers and body. If you look closely at all headers, you can probably find it, since most SMTP servers AFAIK add one or more header fields containing the email address found on the SMTP command.
That's how BCC can work: the list of emails in the BCC is never sent within the email message (unlike TO or CC), they are only sent on the SMTP commands.
Yeah it is under the SMTP that the microsoft email appears and that's why Google says it isn't their problem. Which I'm still just not sure how in any world a customer receiving spam is considered not their problem.
But I was suggesting that the actual content in the headers should be providing a hint at spam. Because if something like being "from" home depot shouldn't match with an edu domain. Still, these emails are just wild and I'm very upset that google will do nothing about them. I get them at least once a week.
And it is unfortunately hard to switch emails... I'm in the process by trying to create unique emails with a relay service so I can just redirect, but still....
You probably already know this, but the content of these headers is not relevant for email routing. The list of email addresses which will actually receive an email message can be found on the SMTP commands, which precede (and are independent from) the email headers and body. If you look closely at all headers, you can probably find it, since most SMTP servers AFAIK add one or more header fields containing the email address found on the SMTP command.
That's how BCC can work: the list of emails in the BCC is never sent within the email message (unlike TO or CC), they are only sent on the SMTP commands.