Daniluk, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 17 August 1999 at 11:51:48 -0400
> 6. After a few days of testing, we find that people are inexplicably
> receiving other people's emails. We dont know why, we have NO clue. Headers
> are all the way they should be. QMail doesn't report any errors, but they
> just aren't delivered to the right location. So, I'm asking you for help...
> not to be continuously and repeatedly accused of this or that. You have all
> the information I have, and I'm not asking for a solution, I'm asking for
> reasonable and plausible possibilities as many of you have been using qmail
> since its inception and therefore may know anything that may cause this, or
> have heard of other people who have had similar problems.
And none of us have ever experienced anything vaguely like this as a
qmail problem, even in the pre-release-1 days. It's just not
something we've seen qmail do; so the immediate suspicion is that
something else is at fault.
Also, we *don't* have all the information you have. The log files
would make it possible to trace a message from injection to delivery,
and show a much clearer view of the path it followed. And I know at
least one other contributor to the thread asked about the log files
previously.
Because of your special setup originating the messages, you also
probably know some "invariants" in your head that we don't (the
messages always have the user's name *here* and *here* and address
*here*, that sort of thing).
My best guess, actually, is that the message maker is injecting
messages with headers inconsistent with their envelope addresses. If
that's it, it will be clearly traceable in the logs on your qmail
system.
> Emails ARE being sent to the wrong people. When someone named Cezary
> receives email that starts off saying "Dear Ian" and Ian's email address is
> all over the headers, but Cezary is no where, THAT is a problem. Again, in
> the past, everyone has been exceedingly helpful to me. I don't quite
> understand why this isn't the case right now, but I'm trying to supply what
> everyone is asking for, and I haven't made any accusations against the
> integrity of qmail, nor am I intending to. I simply have a problem and am
> wondering if anyone has any constructive thoughts.
It's clearly a *business* problem in your situation. I understand
that these emails are not ending up where you want them to.
It is *NOT* clear that it's a technical problem. The contents of the
headers do *NOT* control where a message is sent; that's controlled by
the SMTP envelope. And most of us on this list, especially the people
with the best technical understanding of qmail, look at it very much
from the technical viewpoint.
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