E-mail address rewrites

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 20 18:28:46 IST 2007


One thing I can tell you is that it isn't a MailScanner problem. 
MailScanner doesn't even know what Cc fields are :-)
Let alone does it ever go anywhere near them.

Jules.

Gottschalk, David wrote:
>
> Over the last few weeks, I’ve had users reporting that they are 
> getting bounces when replying to messages saying ‘user at msserver.edu 
> <mailto:user at msserver.edu>’ is a invalid user (where msserver is the 
> hostname of one of my MailScanner relays). It’s beginning to appear 
> that something on these boxes is re-writing addresses while they are 
> in transit. I have several examples where messages from one internal 
> mail system travels through one of my five mail relays running 
> mailscanner, and arrives with a re-written address address in the CC 
> field. I know this is a strange, unique issue, but I could really use 
> some help. I’ve looked around a lot on my servers to see if I could 
> find any sources of this problem, but I’ve found nothing. I’ve also 
> searched lots on google, and mailscanner list archives. Any help would 
> be greatly appreciated. Below is my setup:
>
> Sendmail 8.13.1
>
> MailScanner 4.60.8
>
> David Gottschalk
> UTS Infrastructure Technology Services
> david.gottschalk at emory.edu <mailto:david.gottschalk at emory.edu>
>

Jules

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