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qmail invoked by alias

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by aasalem

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I'm testing Gmail account so I sent a message from it to different e-mail account and I find this on the received side in its header "Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Oct 2012 22:59:58 -0000" that is a GMX account if that makes a difference. Now what "qmail invoked by alias" stand for?

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by Wizard57M-TR

probably refers to the actual mail handling software running on GMail, invoked by
alias of your Gmail account rather than a direct qmail account. Note this is just
a best guess, as I do not know the specifics of how GMail routes their messaging.

by oh smeg

[i]qmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that runs on Unix. It was written, starting December 1995, by Daniel J. Bernstein as a more secure replacement for the popular Sendmail program. qmail's source code is in the public domain, making qmail free software[/i]

From Wikipedia here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail

So what you are seeing is that the Mail was transfered by Q Mail to the account you sent it to from the Account you sent it from and the rest as stated above is most likely referring to the sending account.

Col

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