Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:48:16 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: MS Exchange server and FreeBSD mailing lists Message-ID: <20001023144816.B51105@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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