> As part of our testing, we tried to send a message to the address > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', and surprisingly the message has been sent > and received successfully. > > Could anyone help us by explaining this phenomenon. > Is '%' supposed to work as a wild card or is it a bug in IMail. > If this is a feature provided by Imail, is there a way to block it.
I do not know the technical answer but it is not a bug. The % sign does something like indicate an e-mail address within an e-mail address. Declude JunkMail has a specific test to catch this, as it is something that a spammer can use to relay mail. One of the ORB relay tests also uses that to see if you are an open relay. I think it works like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@localdomain.com gets redelivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] So in your case, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was actually redeliver to admin@ which Imail accepted to the host domain probably. I THINK! John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA 92835 www.reliancesoft.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
