Question about from address

[Jim Dickenson]

I followed the plain test message example at

<http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:test_troubleshoot:mt
a:connexion>



The from address in all the log records was the address I specified on the

mail from:<stuff>

line.


Is this what is considered the envelope email address?

If so then I do not understand why the MailScanner-From header shows the
address I entered on the From: line.


I have saved the telnet session, the log records, and the delivered email
message if someone wants them to look at.

-- 
Jim Dickenson
mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com

CfMC
http://www.cfmc.com/



> From: Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:40:46 +0200
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: *CfMC-Spam= 8.31* Re: Question about from address
> 
> On 06/04/06, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote:
>> Jim Dickenson wrote on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:08:31 -0700:
>> 
>>> And I still do not understand why it shows this address and not the address
>>> that is shown in my sendmail list as being the sender:
>> 
>> I don't either. Can you post the header of the message? Is it for sure that
>> what sendmail shows in the log *is* the envelope-from? I mean it usually is,
>> but maybe your sendmail or sendmail.cf is "special"?
>> 
>> Kai
>> 
> I think Jims telnet experiments will tell us this... One other
> possibility, albeit remote (since I do beleive that Jules "sanitizes"
> the headers, so that there can only be one X-MailScanner-From: ...),
> would be if there is more than one MailScanner involved, thoroughly
> confusing matters.
> 
> Or perhaps the customer is too lazy to actually get at the headers,
> and just "invent" them from what they "think they should be".....:-)
> 
> Jim, you should really demand that the customer provide at least one
> "problem message" _as verbatim as possible_. Would be a shame to waste
> time on something that turns out to be a red herrirng:-):-).
> 
> --
> -- Glenn
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> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
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