On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Martin D Kealey wrote:
the mail is collected from there using a POP client the mail is then fed to an Exchange Server
If this is plain old pop then all the envelope details should vanish one the mail is delivered into the mailbox (appart from non-standard headers like X-Rcpt-To: ) .
The Exchange server and pop client MUST be able to work out where the email is going solely from the normal headers ( To, Cc ) and which mailbox the email ends up in.
Yadda yadda, yes *I* know all this, but the great unwashed don't, and don't even want to have to think about it. I've changed to sending the subscription confirmation messages out as "Bcc", so I can catch some ahead of time but there seems to be a push lately to install MS Exchange downstream of MDaemon and its ilk.
If the can't to that then they should buy a proper smtp dequeuing account.
Well the problem is that this is being sold as "a solution" to people who are completely non-technical, and for those individuals (who aren't subscribed to any mailing lists) it appears to work just fine. They are reticent to spend more money when they can't see a problem. In other words it's political: these POP client thingies seemingly work fine on lots of ISPs (presumably using X-Rcpt-To headers), but of late not on Xtra. Could someone with a clue at Xtra please have a look and make sure that mta*.xtra.co.nz are (still) inserting X-Rcpt-To headers? Or that if a policy decision has been taken not to do this any more, that resellers are being actively advised not to install any sort of mail server downstream of a client's POP account? -Martin. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog