Ok first off let me advise I'm usually a lurker but this case has me beat and I also need to confess to being no great
expert on running an email server...
Client A reports email missing from Client B - A is using an email address on my mail server office(a)srt.co.nz (not the
actual address) . B claims he is sending his email from MT(a)hotmail.co.nz ... not ever having heard of a .nz suffix for
Hotmail I tried to traceroute it - it doesn't resolve to anything "unable to resolve target system name hotmail.co.nz.
B insists that is his email address and that email gets to him ... after getting him to email me directly 1 checked the
email headers and noted the received from bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com - in fact the only mention of hotmail.co.nz is
where B has presumably set up his email client...
Question How is email getting to him at all - is there some sort of wizardry going on that resolves hotmail.co.nz to
hotmail.com that is not apparent when checking DNS , tracerouting or trying to browse to hotmail.co.nz?
-------- Original Message --------
From: - Sat Jul 09 13:58:45 2011
X-Account-Key: account7
X-UIDL: 00004d2c48c5dd89
X-Mozilla-Status: 0011
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:
Return-Path:
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on webhostnz.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=3.2.5
X-Original-To: webmaster(a)webhostnz.com
Delivered-To: webmaster.webhostnz(a)mail.webhostnz.com
Received: from mail.webhostnz.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.webhostnz.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE4D81AF for
; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:41:23 +1200 (NZST)
Received: by mail.webhostnz.com (Postfix, from userid 5001) id C5D568351; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:41:23 +1200 (NZST)
Received: from bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.190.206]) by mail.webhostnz.com
(Postfix) with ESMTP id A20E181AF for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:41:22 +1200 (NZST)
Received: from BAY149-W43 ([65.54.190.199]) by bay0-omc4-s4.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 8
Jul 2011 02:40:49 -0700
Message-ID:
X-Originating-IP: [122.60.137.225]
From: MT
To: SW ,
Subject: RE: SRT missing emails
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:40:49 +1200
Importance: Normal
In-Reply-To: <0868FD19-959C-4475-B3E9-6BA3D617A6E2(a)paradise.net.nz>
References:
<4E169A42.5010800(a)webhostnz.com>,<9081134D-532B-4302-93DB-0135BAA6A218(a)paradise.net.nz>,,<0868FD19-959C-4475-B3E9-6BA3D617A6E2(a)paradise.net.nz>
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Jul 2011 09:40:49.0250 (UTC) FILETIME=[1EA34C20:01CC3D53]
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 9.0.901 [271.1.1/3750]
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=======AVGMAIL-3A4A79CC======="
<<END>>
Happy to receive replies direct...
Ian Cousins
