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Article #958Problems routing email
From: Kevin W. Reed
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:35
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:35
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We are having a problem with mail routing that apprently the administrators at the University are unable to correct. Hopefully, someone might have an idea of where they can look to get this problem solved. What is happening is that when mail is routed through the University, the To: From: and even Reply-To: headers are being changed (mangled would be a better word). The result is that when the recipent gets the message and tries to reply to it, the headers are malformed and cause the messages to bounce. My first question is why would these headers need to be changed in the first place? In most cases, the addresses are domain style easily accessible addresses. Why the Reply-To header is also changed doesn't make any sense as I always thought that this header was intended to go though unschathed. The University is using ULTRIX V4.2 (Rev. 96) and apparently is using sendmail. This problem has been identified since at least January and several attempts have been made by their administrators to correct the problem without sucess. -- +-------------+ | TeleSys | Kevin W. Reed ------ Public *NIX Site and Newsfeed Source | Development | kreed@tnet.com UUCP: ...!ncar!noao!enuucp!telesys!kreed | Systems | SCO Xenix/Unix Support Data/UUCP/BBS: +1 602 649 9099 +-------------+
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!telesys!kreed From: kreed@telesys.tnet.com (Kevin W. Reed) Subject: Problems routing email Organization: TeleSys Development Systems, Mesa AZ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:35:43 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug23.203543.29633@telesys.tnet.com> Lines: 31