Re: Footers Effecting Email Delivery

From: Kip Ng [MSFT] (king_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/24/04

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    Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:53:16 +0800

    Have a look at the mail header of the mail delivered to the System
    Administrator. See who is it being directed to? Sometimes, those spamming
    software may do more than just adding disclaimers, it may modify some of the
    headers too. 

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"ITDave" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We receive a large number of emails from a company we
> deal with. Recently we have had a problem receiving their
> emails. They come into our server but are delivered to
> the System Administrator instead of the correct person
> (they are addressed correctly).
> I spoke to the IT team of this company and after a long
> time we found out that if they removed their company
> footer then the emails were delivered correctly.
> All the footer contains is a company disclaimer (inside a
> row of *) and some website addresses. They use
> MIMEsweeper.
> We have no filtering or spam filters setup on our server
> and we dont check for Reverse DNS Lookup.
> I dont see why the Footer would effect email delivery
> does anyone have any ideas. Any help would really be
> appreciated.
> We have no problem sending them emails or
> sending/recieving emails from anyone else. It has
> something to do with their company footer.
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