Hi,
I am the System Administrator for my company email and network
systems. We have e-smith 4.1.2 installed. Of late, we have been receiving emails addressed correctly
to persons in the company but ending up with the me, the
administrator. Upon compiling the message headers of such mails, the
following common points were observed:
a. Some strange characters are added to the receipient address:
"rfc822^x3babc@mydomain.com" (see No. 12 below)
b. These messages go through a messaging server "iPlanet Messaging
Server..." (see point 17 and 18)
c. The receipient of the message is always changed to
"rfc822;abc@mydomain.com" (see No. 26 below)
The following is a typical header of such mail (for this troubleshooting purpose, I have changed the actual receipient's email address to 'abc@mydomain.com'):
1. Return-Path:
2. Delivered-To: administrator@server.mydomain.com
3. Received: (qmail 28788 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2002 13:20:13 -0000
4. Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-administrator@mydomain.com
5. Received: (qmail 28785 invoked by uid 101); 4 Oct 2002 13:20:13
-0000
6. Delivered-To: admin@server.mydomain.com
7. Received: (qmail 28783 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2002 13:20:13 -0000
8. Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-admin@mydomain.com
9. Received: (qmail 28780 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2002 13:20:13 -0000
10. Delivered-To: rfc822^x3babc@server.mydomain.com
11. Received: (qmail 28777 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2002 13:20:13
-0000
12. Delivered-To: alias-localdelivery-rfc822^x3babc@mydomain.com
13. Received: (qmail 28774 invoked by uid ; 4 Oct 2002 13:20:13
-0000
14. Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1)
by localhost with SMTP id smtpdIREauJ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:20:05 EDT
15. Received: from 203.120.78.6
by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.5.0)
for rfc822;abc@mydomain.com (multi-drop); Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:20:03
+0800 (SGT)
16. Received: from mekong1.greendot.com.sg ([202.79.212.26]) by
mydomain.com ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 20:58:43 +0800 GMT
17. Received: from conversion-daemon.mekong1.greendot.com.sg by
mekong1.greendot.com.sg
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000))
id <0H3G00L01K840R@mekong1.greendot.com.sg> for abc@mydomain.com;
Fri,
04 Oct 2002 21:15:02 +0800 (SGT)
18. Received: from margarita1.gd.com.sg (margarita1.gd.com.sg
[192.168.11.27])
by mekong1.greendot.com.sg
(iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000))
with ESMTP id <0H3G00LM7KIQ0E@mekong1.greendot.com.sg> for
abc@mydomain.com; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:09:34 +0800 (SGT)
Received: from sms ([192.168.11.52])
by margarita3.gd.com.sg (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built
Dec 14
2000)) with ESMTP id <0H3G00FFSK7XQ6@margarita3.gd.com.sg> for
abc@mydomain.com; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:02:22 +0800 (SGT)
Date Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:03:53 +0800 (CST)
19. From: "The Editor of MIW.COM.SG"
20. Subject: Are you the winner of the Compact Presario Desktop PC
Model 3612?
21. To: abc@mydomain.com
22. Message-id: <32607625.1033736634015.JavaMail.root@sms>
23. MIME-version: 1.0
24. Content-type: text/html
25. Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
26. X-Rcpt-To: rfc822;abc@mydomain.com
27. X-DPOP: Version number supressed
28. X-UIDL: 1033736447.136294
29. Status: U
Mails from other domains not using the iPlanet Messaging
Server/Service are received normally.
I hope someone can provide me with some clues as to what's going on
and how I can resolve the problem.
Thank you.
Richard L.
Singapore
(loyrich@kimann.com)