Many mailers can be set up to recognize that a huge TO: and/or CC: list is spam. hotmail does this as does AOL.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Lavoie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:31 AM Subject: RE: The great smtp mystery > Thanks. That would provide an explanation for how it happens. I can only > guess as to what the motivation might be. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:41 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: The great smtp mystery > > > 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] > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
