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On Thursday, March 27, 2003, Greg Strong wrote...

[..]
> Received: from smtp.us.messagingengine.com (server3.internal [10.202.2.134])
>         by server3.fastmail.fm (Cyrus v2.1.9) with LMTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:32:59 
> -0500
> Received: from smtp.us.messagingengine.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>         by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20D6455AA
>         for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:32:59 -0500 (EST)
> Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1]
> helo=smtp.us.messagingengine.com) by messagingengine.com
>   with SMTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:32:59 -0500
[..]

> Notice the "messagingengine.com" reference in the header. I spoke to
> my ISP's phone support, they did NOT know what it was for. The only
> thing I changed above were my email addresses, and IP number. So
> where does http://www.messagingengine.com/ come into play with
> regard to the headers above? If you could provide some answers, it
> would be great.

They would never know unless they knew what to look for.  You'll
notice the order of receipt.. it goes:

  your machine
  your isp
  messagingengine.com
  fastmail.fm

I did a quick lookup, and the reason that is happening is fastmail.fm
are using messagingengine.com as an MX service. I explain the other
day in an email about MX's to somebody. Basically what is happening is
that your mail is going through a service that fastmail.fm request it
to.

;; ANSWER SECTION:
fastmail.fm.            3600    IN      MX      5 smtp.eu.messagingengine.com.
fastmail.fm.            3600    IN      MX      0 smtp.us.messagingengine.com.
fastmail.fm.            3600    IN      MX      3 smtp.us2.messagingengine.com.

This is the answer to my query. What it looks like to me is
fastmail.fm have joined forces, or are now owned by
messagingengine.com. Performing further lookups on fastmail.fm shows
that messagingengine.com also host the domain name servers for
fastmail.fm.

Hope that relaxes your mind a little... it's not some kind of
conspiracy to steel your mail ;) Your ISP is unlikely to know (at
least not level 1 support anyway) how to find that kind of
information, or do the basic research. If you'd been sent higher, you
might have got that info :)

- --
Jonathan Angliss
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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