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Article #90Re: How Can I Figure Out The Address To Which This Mail Was Sent?
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1992 15:14
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1992 15:14
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In article <pfxh09jwestes@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes: >I need help to find out what address some mail is being sent to. >so now I am getting two copies of every post...one sent to my new >address and one sent to my old address (which is now a mail alias for my >new address). >My question is: what can I do to determine the actual address to which >this mail is being sent? The actual header is as follows: Short answer: There is nothing you can do. Long answer: Well, if your postmaster cooperates, there is one possibility you can try. Ask your postmaster to temporarily modify 'sendmail.cf' so that the aliasing is done in a rewrite rule instead of in the aliases file. After the changes, the sendmail daemon will need to be killed and restarted. You will then be able to see the original recipient address in the syslog records which are probably being recorded in /var/log/syslog. This doesn't work with normal aliasing, since then the syslog records contain the original alias expansion. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4424,47062a6dd62990f2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4424,public X-Google-Thread: 11d1cf,47062a6dd62990f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid11d1cf,public X-Google-Thread: 113c94,47062a6dd62990f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid113c94,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-03-07 06:42:33 PST Newsgroups: netcom.general,comp.mail.misc,bit.listserv.lstsrv-l Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Subject: Re: How Can I Figure Out The Address To Which This Mail Was Sent? Message-ID: <1992Mar7.151455.19824@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University References: <pfxh09jwestes@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1992 15:14:55 GMT Lines: 27