I think you may misunderstand the situation--we are sending mail globally.
The recipients may or may not (and most likely, based on statistical usage
of qmail, do not) use qmail. We are experimenting with qmail as a drop-in
replacement for MS SMTP server. MS SMTP server has never "switched" emails
before (that's about the *only* thing it hasn't done), but when we switch to
qmail it occaisionally does. We're talking about 10-15 messages out of
300,000 here, but that's still pretty significant and needs dealt with.
Here's a sample header of a message received by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Received: from mailtest1.strategy.com (10.10.209.10 [10.10.209.10]) by
mailgate.strategy.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service
Version 5.5.2448.0)
id Q5V89MBW; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:06:59 -0400
Received: (qmail 24678 invoked from network); 13 Aug 1999 13:16:01 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO qta-ctah3-dev.querytone.com) (10.10.177.152)
by 10.10.209.10 with SMTP; 13 Aug 1999 13:16:01 -0000
Received: from mail pickup service by qta-ctah3-dev.querytone.com with
Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:14:14 -0400
From: "Strategy.com Investment Channel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ian Fevrier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Change in Consensus Estimate
Date: 13 Aug 1999 09:07:38 EDT
X-Comment: Produced By Cheetah, Telepath, MSI. MessageID=PortfolioID:22671
EmailID:22196
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Rae [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 3:47 PM
To: Daniluk, Chris
Subject: Re: bad deliver
Have you checked the intended recipient's .qmail file or the qmail/alias
directory for entries that could be redirecting mail elsewhere?
Si
"Daniluk, Chris" wrote:
>
> We've been experiencing an unusual phenomenon--Qmail appears to be
> *occaisionally* delivering email to the wrong people. The message headers
> are fine, but they get delivered to completely wrong addresses. There's no
> similarity or relationship between the messages and qmail doesn't log
> anything relevant. It will receive the message via smtp, queue it, then
send
> it. The header will contain the email address it SHOULD have gone to but
the
> sender will be someone else. This is very strange considering there's no
> header mutilation taking place.
>
> Cris Daniluk
> MicroStrategy
