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Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:48:16 +0200
From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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Subject: MS Exchange server and FreeBSD mailing lists
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I'm getting my mail via a MS Exchange server. I'm fetching it with fetchmail, 
which delivers it to sendmail on my FreeBSD PC. Procmail is filtering it to 
several mailboxes and I read it with mutt. 

I subscribed some of the FreeBSD mailing lists and use the "Sender:" header
to filter them; it's in fact the filter that was mailed couple of months
ago to the -chat (?) mailing list and I'm very happy with it: simple and
efficient. However, it turns out that the Exchange server sometimes (in less
than 10 % of the emails) throws out the "Sender:" header, so the filtering 
fails. I mailed the local helpdesk about it and they say that 'the "Sender:" 
header is not a required header so this is not a bug but by design' and I have 
to change my filter.

It seems weird to me that random nukes of mail headers would be normal.
Anyway, I went back to my old mail address that does not pass the Exchange
server. No problems anymore! Except for the fact that I don't know how long
this will be supported by my University.

Can someone tell me where in fact is the faulty behaviour? The use of 
non-required headers by the FreeBSD lists or the 'design' of Exchange?

Regards,
Karel.


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