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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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