[Discuss] Sendmail question

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/13/2012 01:34 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Sendmail question
> Looks like Postfix...
>
>
>> I'm seeing a few of these messages in my maillog:
>> Mar  6 19:21:29 cheyenne postfix/smtp[5546]: 183A62FD52:
>> to=<kmbodine at hotmail.com>, relay=mx2.hotmail.com[65.55.92.152]:25,
>> delay=0.73, delays=0.05/0/0.15/0.52, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 
>> <4F56A9EB.8040401 at gmail.com> Queued mail for delivery)
>>
>> What confuses me is: 4F56A9EB.8040401 at gmail.com
>> Would that mean that this user has a forward or an alias to a gmail
>> account.
> If so, the forwarding from Hotmail to Gmail wouldn't be evident in your
> mail log. (Assuming this is outbound mail you sent to the Hotmail address.)
>
> The "4F56A9EB.8040401 at gmail.com" is a message ID, rather than an
> address. For example:
>
> Jan 23 03:22:56 lex postfix/smtp[6193]: 2F54585807F: to=<...>,
> relay=spam4.ihostexchange.net[66.46.182.94]:25, delay=4.5,
> delays=3.6/0.01/0.56/0.37, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0
> <4F1D18D5.1050501 at vl.com> Queued mail for delivery)
>
> The bigger question is why your mail client handed your Postfix SMTP
> relay a message with a Gmail message ID. That's assuming this is an
> outbound message that you sent. If this was an inbound message, then
> that's a different story.
>
>  -Tom
>
Yeah it is postfix. In any case, it is from mailman. He was complaining
that some of his email from the list was going to his wife's gmail
account. The reason I was checking the logs was to see if there was any
email going to his wife's email account, which it was not.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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