(I posted this last week and no one responded. C'mon, guys, can I get some
real help here instead of watching y'all waste time making fun of some guy
who mistyped "600" as "6000"? There are still people -- including Ziad as
well -- who are using this list for supplementary technical support.
Thanks!)
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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