How to tell if an email was sent from a smartphone

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Is it possible to tell if an email was sent through a smartphone? Is there something marked in the email headers?

divillysausages

Posted 2012-11-21T16:18:13.433

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Mail from a 'normal' computer and mail from a smartphone is sent the same way (via SMTP).

Thus the short answer is: No.

The slightly longer answer is that a mail client is allowed to add extra header. Thus if a client adds "X-header: sent from my crackberry" then you can detect it. But allowed is not the same as required. There is no guarantee whatsoever that any such header gets set.

Hennes

Posted 2012-11-21T16:18:13.433

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