On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
>
> Peter's vacation program works great. But we have a weird exception that
> concerns me....
>
> When mail is sent from pine or BSD mail off our IRIX box the feature works
> great, but when we tested it from a user sending from Outlook the retrun
> message was never delivered. I can't see any problem in the perl code of
> Peter's program, so my guess is there are some funny interactions
> when qmail is trying to get the $SENDER (or other?) variable from the
> header.
$SENDER is set from the _envelope_ sender address, not from _any_ of the
message headers.
To see exactly what variables are being set, create a .qmail-env file
in a user's home directory. It will contain the following command:
| env | sort -f > /var/tmp/env.$$
It should have 644 permissions.
Then send mail from your various systems to user-env and examine the
/var/tmp/env.nnnnn files.
My guess is that the file created from the Outlook message will have a
strange $SENDER value. The examples below show different Return-Path:
values. Return-Path: is also derived from the _envelope_ sender
address:
The local message from pine had:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The remote message from Outlook had:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is the missing ella component important to your setup? If it is, then
the Outlook system is misconfigured wrt your requirements.
Let me know what you see.
>
> This seems related to other discussions about return receipt and Microsoft
> products?!
I don't think so. It looks like a configuration issue to me.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA,
>
> Samuel Daffner
> Mills College ITS
>
> ------ this header works ....using pine --------
> >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 25 12:11:02 1999
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ....
>
> ------ this header doesn't...from Outlook -------
>
> >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 25 12:16:23 1999
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ....
Regards
Peter
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