Re: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email?
I have to do this at least once a month - usually I'm troubleshooting problems that the ISP for a customer or vendor is having.. Interesting case in point, though your script probably wouldn't help with it: We have a customer who randomly gets bouncebacks when sending us email. This customer's email is handled by their ISP - they're a small shop with no IT staff. I finally got on the phone with them to walk them through getting me the headers from one of their rejected emails. After scratching my head on it for a while I finally figured it out. It turns out that their ISP's mail server was randomly deciding that it didn't want to use the MX record for our domain when sending email - it was sending it to the A record for our company, which is set to the bare DN. The A record (example.com) points to our web site, which is hosted by a third party. Our MX records (mail.example.com and smtp.example.com) point to mail servers in our site. However, our web site is hosted on a machine with a local SMTP service, which will not relay - it's only meant for accepting email generated by our web site when a customer fills out a form to send data to us. (Why on Earth the ISP doesn't just bind the SMTP listener to localhost is beyond me, but beside the point for this discussion - I'm currently working on fixing that problem.) I ended up discussing this issue with the customer's ISP, and failing, in part because of language barriers, to get them to change whatever moronic configuration they have to use correct procedures for sending email. So, I explained the problem to the customer, and left it to them to decide whether they needed a competent ISP, rather than a cheap one, or one run the the second cousin of the boss' wife, or something like that. I do occasionally run into other issues with delivering mail that point to a correspondent's full mailbox or some misconfiguration of their mail server or DNS, so it would be a cool tool, but not high on my priority list. Kurt On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:28, Campbell, Rob rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net wrote: Thinking about writing a PS script that would parse and display the hops an email took, along with the latency at each hop, in the right chronological order, from email headers read from the clipboard. IOW, you could display the Message Options on an email, copy the headers to the clipboard, and then run a function from a PS session or hit an icon on the desktop to invoke it, and get back a list of hops it took, and how long it stayed at each one. ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email?
Homegrown this? http://www.mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 4:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email? Thinking about writing a PS script that would parse and display the hops an email took, along with the latency at each hop, in the right chronological order, from email headers read from the clipboard. IOW, you could display the Message Options on an email, copy the headers to the clipboard, and then run a function from a PS session or hit an icon on the desktop to invoke it, and get back a list of hops it took, and how long it stayed at each one. ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email?
Ps look at headers several times a day, this maybe once or twice a month Blackberry From: Ramatowski, Paul M. Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 06:05 PM To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues' exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email? Homegrown this? http://www.mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 4:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email? Thinking about writing a PS script that would parse and display the hops an email took, along with the latency at each hop, in the right chronological order, from email headers read from the clipboard. IOW, you could display the Message Options on an email, copy the headers to the clipboard, and then run a function from a PS session or hit an icon on the desktop to invoke it, and get back a list of hops it took, and how long it stayed at each one. ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email?
Was gonna say the same thing. From: pramatow...@mediageneral.com [mailto:pramatow...@mediageneral.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 3:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email? Homegrown this? http://www.mxtoolbox.com/EmailHeaders.aspx From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 4:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How often do you have to read through the Received headers on an email? Thinking about writing a PS script that would parse and display the hops an email took, along with the latency at each hop, in the right chronological order, from email headers read from the clipboard. IOW, you could display the Message Options on an email, copy the headers to the clipboard, and then run a function from a PS session or hit an icon on the desktop to invoke it, and get back a list of hops it took, and how long it stayed at each one. ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
