On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, David Osborne wrote:
> I have just received two confusing non-delivery reports from users. It looks
> as if Exim is attempting delivery to an address other than the one they typed
> in the To header. Here's an example, where local-part "lpujh97" seems to have
> become "lpujh":
The To header has nothing to do with where a message gets delivered. It
is the address in the message's "envelope" (the one passed in the SMTP
"RCPT TO" command for SMTP mail) that determines where the message is
sent. I would guess that whatever sent this message provided an envelope
address that was different to what was in the To header.
> > A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its
> > recipients. The following address(es) failed:
>
> > lpujh@???:
> > SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:
> > <lpujh@???>:
> > host sumh1.reading.ac.uk [134.225.16.4]:
> > 550 Unknown local user 'lpujh'
>
> > ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
>
> > Return-path: <lpyrrf@???>
> > Received: from hermes.nottingham.ac.uk [128.243.101.179]
> > by nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #1)
> > id 0xb4xs-0002tz-00; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:30:48 +0000
> > Received: from CCW0F/SpoolDir by hermes.nottingham.ac.uk (Mercury 1.32);
> > 27 Nov 97 14:30:47 GMT0BST
> > Received: from SpoolDir by CCW0F (Mercury 1.32); 27 Nov 97 14:30:44 GMT0BST
> > From: <lpyrrf@???>
> > To: lpujh97@???
> > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 14:30:34 GMT0BST
> > Subject:
> > Priority: normal
> > X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.40 (NDS)
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