Question about from address

[Glenn Steen]

On 12/04/06, Jim Dickenson <dickenson at cfmc.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yep, that is the "envelope sender" (Any info from the MAIL FROM: and
RCPT TO: are considered "envelope details" since they aren't really
part of the message as such).


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

What? I have to look at this, but that shouldn't be! .... Ok, have now
done the exact same test and can tell you that on my systems, this
doesn't happen. With a telnet like this:
-----------------
ehlo maka.kaka.se
250-mail.ap1.se
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 16777216
250-ETRN
250 8BITMIME
mail from:<gnurg at arge.se>
250 Ok
rcpt to:<glenn.steen at ap1.se>
250 Ok
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
From: <fnuball at burguburgu.se>
To: <glenn.steen at ap1.se>
Subject: Test

Test
.
250 Ok: queued as 6EFF8840F8
----------------------
I get the following headers from MailScanner:
X-ForstaAP-Fonden-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IT for more
information
X-ForstaAP-Fonden-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-ForstaAP-Fonden-MailScanner-SpamScore: ssss
X-ForstaAP-Fonden-MailScanner-From: gnurg at arge.se
X-ForstaAP-Fonden-MailScanner-To: glenn.steen at ap1.se
X-Spam-Status: No

And (as can be guessed) this is in harmony with the logs (I'm to lazy
to break out one complete log thread:-).... And, of course, MailWatch
agrees:
---------------------------
ID:	6EFF8840F8.46058
Message Headers:	Received: from maka.kaka.se (scapa.ap1.se [172.18.3.78])
     by mail.ap1.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFF8840F8
     for <glenn.steen at ap1.se>; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:05:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: <fnuball at burguburgu.se>
To: <glenn.steen at ap1.se>
Subject: Test
Message-Id: <20060412180505.6EFF8840F8 at mail.ap1.se>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:05:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:	gnurg at arge.se	[Add to Whitelist | Add to Blacklist]
To:	glenn.steen at ap1.se
Subject:	Test
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That is what it is supposed to look like in your case too:-).

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

Yes please!
And could you tell me what version of MS you are running (I'm not sure
you've told us that:)... The above was on a system running postfix
(obviously:-) and MS version 4.50.14 (yeah, I should upgrade, but the
PHB has a thing about upgrades before going on a trip ... to the
mountains, to ski, no less.... Newly mended bone willing:-).

>
> --
> Jim Dickenson
> mailto:dickenson at cfmc.com
>
> CfMC
> http://www.cfmc.com/
>
(snip)

--
-- Glenn
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