RFC822 and RFC823 (Or the RSV versions 2822 & 2823). Read them, learn them, study them, love them, for they are the holy writ of the wise prophets who bestowed upon the world the gift of Internet email (and in doing so, gives us meaningful employment).
-----Original Message----- From: James Lavoie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:32 AM To: Exchange Discussions 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]
