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Are email headers/sources affected by service providers or email clients?

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When I draft and send an email from my Thunderbird, is the source of that message unchanged when it is received by the other end? For example, let's say I send from Thunderbird to my Gmail SMTP, which then contacts Yahoo servers to send my email to my colleague's Outlook. When they view the message headers/source, should it be identical to my source? Or do the services or clients adjust them somehow?

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When I draft and send an email from my Thunderbird, is the source of that message unchanged when it is received by the other end? For example, let's say I send from Thunderbird to my Gmail SMTP, which then contacts Yahoo servers to send my email to my colleague's Outlook. When they view the message headers/source, should it be identical to my source? Or do the services or clients adjust them somehow? Thanks!

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It should. However, to be absolutely sure the received message is identical with what you sent, you'd need to digitally sign the message, and the recipient would need to verify the signature. I suppose it would help if you could explain what's your problem in the first place.

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It should. However, to be absolutely sure the received message is identical with what you sent, you'd need to digitally sign the message, and the recipient would need to verify the signature. I suppose it would help if you could explain what's your problem in the first place.

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Thanks christ1. I have what I think is an encoding error somewhere between Thunderbird and Outlook (or other Thunderbird clients?), but I wanted to get this bit clarified before I grab a bunch of headers I might not need. I will try to keep things tidy and post them in a new question. Thanks again.