On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 10:51:25AM -0400, Daniluk, Chris wrote:
> I think you may misunderstand the situation--we are sending mail globally.
> The recipients may or may not (and most likely, based on statistical usage
> of qmail, do not) use qmail. We are experimenting with qmail as a drop-in
> replacement for MS SMTP server. MS SMTP server has never "switched" emails
> before (that's about the *only* thing it hasn't done), but when we switch to
> qmail it occaisionally does. We're talking about 10-15 messages out of
> 300,000 here, but that's still pretty significant and needs dealt with.
>
> Here's a sample header of a message received by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
These aren't all the headers. Please include Delivered-To lines.
--Adam
> Received: from mailtest1.strategy.com (10.10.209.10 [10.10.209.10]) by
> mailgate.strategy.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service
> Version 5.5.2448.0)
> id Q5V89MBW; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:06:59 -0400
> Received: (qmail 24678 invoked from network); 13 Aug 1999 13:16:01 -0000
> Received: from unknown (HELO qta-ctah3-dev.querytone.com) (10.10.177.152)
> by 10.10.209.10 with SMTP; 13 Aug 1999 13:16:01 -0000
> Received: from mail pickup service by qta-ctah3-dev.querytone.com with
> Microsoft SMTPSVC;
> Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:14:14 -0400
> From: "Strategy.com Investment Channel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ian Fevrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Change in Consensus Estimate
> Date: 13 Aug 1999 09:07:38 EDT
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> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Rae [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 3:47 PM
> To: Daniluk, Chris
> Subject: Re: bad deliver
>
>
> Have you checked the intended recipient's .qmail file or the qmail/alias
> directory for entries that could be redirecting mail elsewhere?
>
> Si
>
> "Daniluk, Chris" wrote:
> >
> > We've been experiencing an unusual phenomenon--Qmail appears to be
> > *occaisionally* delivering email to the wrong people. The message headers
> > are fine, but they get delivered to completely wrong addresses. There's no
> > similarity or relationship between the messages and qmail doesn't log
> > anything relevant. It will receive the message via smtp, queue it, then
> send
> > it. The header will contain the email address it SHOULD have gone to but
> the
> > sender will be someone else. This is very strange considering there's no
> > header mutilation taking place.
> >
> > Cris Daniluk
> > MicroStrategy
>
