>Hey, everyone...have you noticed this? In Outlook 2000, the Sender: value
>appears in the From: address in the following form:
>
> From: <sender:> on behalf of <from:>
>
>This is only visible in Message Preview and Message View modes, not in the
>Inbox itself.
>
>The problem is not present in Netscape 3.x and 4.x, nor in Outlook Express
>4.x and 5.x. I don't know about Eudora or other clients, but, in any case,
>this is a MAJOR problem for our organization, since we just moved to
Outlook
>2000. See, we reuse a series of generic mailing lists ("List1," "List2,"
>etc.) to get around having to dynamically create new mailing lists for
>one-off mailings, and use recipient impersonation via a friendly name:
>
> To: "Friendly Name" <genericlistname>
>
>It's a cool scheme, and one that I would have otherwise suggested to you
>all, except that under OL2K it breaks. Users are now asking, "Who's this
>'List79-owner' who keeps sending me messages?" Previously, the true list
>names would only be viewable in View Source mode, and we didn't consider
>that a problem, since internal users have no business questioning raw SMTP.
>But now, they *see* the field in general use, and our masquerade is undone.
>
>An additional note for the Ipswitch people: the SMTP RFCs specify that the
>Sender: field is appropriate if the server has a more reliable or "true"
>sender that it knows about. Many servers "x-" out the Sender: field
because
>they know that it can cause problems. In this case, I understand that
>Imailsrv.exe is really doing the sending, and that it thinks that the
>Mailing List owner is a more reliable sender than the From: address of the
>original post, so it will "x-" out any other Sender: fields and put in its
>own. But there's a logical issue here. Imailsrv puts a name like
>"List79-owner" in as the Sender: field without first checking to see if
that
>is a legit address. In fact, I can delete all of the "<listname>-owner"
and
>"owner-<listname>" aliases, and the server *still* thinks that
>"List79-owner" is a more reliable source than the From: address -- which in
>our organization is always a legitimate local user of the Imail server who
>has to (a) supply a password and (b) be on the POSTERS.LST to even use the
>list! Isn't that user a LOT more reliable as a Sender: field? I'd say
yes!
>
>Is there a workaround for this issue? Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sandy
>
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