First off, thank you everyone for this discussion. Second, I have confirmed this
issue with IPSwitch Tech Support. This issue is kinda related to the 'nobody' alias,
but more related to how IMail (my case 7.13) handles mulitple emails to the same
account that has aliases on it. For example, if I have an full blown account called
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and it has an alias on it of [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I go to lets say,
excite.com and email (in the To field), [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], I will
only receive one email from my excite.com address because IMail will see this as a
duplicate message to the same storage account and thus drop the second email of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] although it does show up in the log as RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thus,
this ports over to my issue of having a 'nobody' alias on an account. If I do the
above test on a real account with the nobody alias on it, and indicate two or more
people in the TO field, one copy of the email will be delivered to the first person
listed in the TO field, the other(s) is dropped by IMail as duplicates. We are trying
to find a way around it, but Tech Support as put this in as a suggestion on added
features. Have a great Turkey Day everyone!!
Keith J
-----Original Message-----
From: Sanford Whiteman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wed 11/27/2002 5:44 PM
To: John Tolmachoff
Cc:
Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Nobody Alias Functionality
John,
> Imail creates a separate message for each recipient.
Well, it does when each recipient has a separate SMTPD session! Your
example is not representative, since Yahoo created 5 different
connections to IMail.
Here is one of the threads:
> 20021127 125501 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (00250022) [64.171.65.17] connect
> 216.136.226.179 port 20230
> 20021127 125501 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (00250022) [216.136.226.179] HELO
> web20706.mail.yahoo.com
> 20021127 125501 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (00250022) [216.136.226.179] MAIL
> FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 20021127 125501 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (00250022) [216.136.226.179] RCPT
> TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 20021127 125502 127.0.0.1 SMTPD (00250022) [216.136.226.179]
> D:\IMail\spool\D312500250022e271.SMD 1590
As you can see, one message = one Q/D file. Not surprising. :)
When you actually send to 2+ addresses at the same 'nobody'-ed domain,
IMail rewrites them all into the target of the nobody alias when
creating the Q file (and writes "deliver to alternate" in the SMTP
session to signify this). And although they do appear as separate,
identical recipients in the Q file, SMTP32 reconciles them into just
one recipient when delivering.
-Sandy
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