What you see in the message is the P2, or the contents. But routing is done on the P1, or envelope. The envelope is not visible in the client; it's discarded before delivery to the final destination.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Lavoie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: The great smtp mystery > I receive a message in my inbox sent to an email address that does not match > my own (completely different domain name). I use nslookup to resolve the > domain name of the sender's address and the domain doesn't exist. The > following day another employee receives a similar email with a "to:" address > that does not match our domain. > In both cases the recipients first name matched that of the first part of > the email address. > > Example: > > Say my name is Jay and domain name is yahoo.com > I receive an email in my inbox sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I have no mx record > for delta.com and my server is not configured to route delta.com inbound. > > Can anyone explain this? > > Thanks, > Jay > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
