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- From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet,vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Re: FROM: headers inaccurate
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.131555.6111@dayton.saic.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 13:15:55 EDT
- References: <0095F456.DE2ACF00.3815@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU>
- Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
- Lines: 37
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- In article <0095F456.DE2ACF00.3815@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU>, "Joe Dillon, IU - PU at Fort Wayne, DP Dept." writes:
- > I need help in solving a mailing problem. We have an IBM bringing in BITnet.
- > Our VAXCluster accepts IBM's BITnet with Jnet. The VAXCluster also runs
- > Multinet. We have Novell networks running CC:Mail. CC:Mail's product,
- > SMTPLINK, is running on a Sun to link VMSMail and CC:Mail. (I liken this to
- > a triangle with one side open - Novell to IBM) MX has been installed recently
- > to smoothly link forwarded accounts. At that time Multinet's SMTP server was
- > disabled.
- >
- > The problem: FROM: headers are being stripped on forwarded accounts only if
- > the account names involved in the forwarding are the same. (i.e. VAX account,
- > Dillon, is set to forward to CC:Mail account, Dillon. Someone, lets say Bush,
- > sends mail to VAX account Dillon, CC:Mail account Dillon sees it as coming
- > from VAX-Dillon, not Bush)
- > What works is VAX-dummy set to forward to CC:Mail-Dillon, Bush sends same
- > message in the same way. CC:Mail-Dillon sees it as from Bush and sees
- > VAX-Dillon was involved too.
-
- The problem is the cc:Mail gateway. It is seeing the header that MX
- added "Reset-From:" and uses that as the "From:" header instead of cheching to
- see if the "From:" string starts in column 1!
-
- We reported this to the cc:Mail folks back when we had 1.2 and they
- fixed it and gave us a new image. Guess what? When 1.30 came along, the bug
- was back! They fixed it in beta but it didn't get to the regular release.
-
- We just received notice of a beta 2.0 of the gateway. Maybe they finally
- have it fixed.
-
-
- -Earle
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