MAIL FORWARDING For the sake of reliability, forwarded mail is re-submit- ted as a new message, so that each recipient has a sepa- rate on-file delivery status record. In order to stop mail forwarding loops early, the software adds an optional Delivered-To: header with the final enve- lope recipient address. If mail arrives for a recipient that is already listed in a Delivered-To: header, the mes- sage is bounced.