Absolutely nothing is wrong. Sendmail (and a few other *nix mta's) offer the ability to completely destroy the integrity of the message headers.
Not to mention, the from address isn't only stored in the header, its stored in the message body most of the time too. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: knighTslayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:22 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Masquerading > > > What's the deal with masquerading? I'm about to take my 5ft sword to > this damn server if it doesn't behave soon... > > For mail sent to a certain domain, it pops off to my IIS5.0 > server where > I have an SMTP relay that masquerades the email domain to another > address. This works a treat and when the mail arrives in the > destination mail box it appears to have come from the changed domain > name. > > i.e. Mail comes from exchange server where the addressing pattern is > '@domain.com' and the destination @hotmail.com so forward to > relay where > masquerade changes address to @change.domain.com. It gets there with > address @change.domain.com. This is okay. > > BUT > > In the header, the FROM field says [EMAIL PROTECTED], even though the > return path, the display and everything else says > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The display says [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What's wrong with this piece of cra..... ??? > > TIA > K > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
