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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:53:35 +0200
From:      Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Email, RFC822
Message-ID:  <20010613225335.D20141@beverly.kleinbus.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106132100410.1958-100000@jo.ad-cons.de>; from ad-cons@t-online.de on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:35:18PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106132100410.1958-100000@jo.ad-cons.de>

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:35:18PM +0200, Jochen Adler wrote:
> 
> Hallo all together,
> 
> At our school, I received a mail from the ministry, which sendmail
> etc. could not deliver, because of an unknown username. The user
> _verwaltung_ (see below) is a well known user to the system.

> To: "'verwaltung@ers-hameln.de'"

yes, but they didnt send it to verwaltung - thats just the "full name"
field. They did send it to:

> <"/DD.MSXENCAP=3DSMTP/RFC-822=3Dverwaltung(a)ers-hameln.de/"@mk.nieders=
> achsen.de
>     >

which is HTMLese for
 "/DD.MSCENCAP=SMTP/RFC-822=verwaltung(a)ers-hameln.de/"@mk.niedersachsen.de

and nobody on earth can get the right address out of that, for mail software 
that wasn't written 20 years ago when N really different mail networks were
interconnected.

Actually,it might be that the _envelope_ address was correct, but you don't
show that - you should cite the logfile entries, which will show where the
mail attempted to go.

Btw: I'm not sure freebsd-isdn is really the best mailing list to discuss
this problem...

Regards,
	-is

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