[imp] error message on reply

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Thursday, February 1, 2007 11:12 -0500 
dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:

> AHA here is what is in the headers:
> from [10.40.5.19] (macbook002.hhs.harrisonburg.k12.va.us [10.40.5.19]
> (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.harrisonburg.k12.va.us
> (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l11FS2Y8032276 for
> <dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us>; Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:28:02 -0500
> Wonder where the (may be forged) comes from?  I dont have anything
> rewriting headers.

It means the forward and reverse DNS on the hostname don't match, so
the name macbook002.hhs.harrisonburg.k12.va.us cannot be trusted.


This would not cause the IMP problem.  I was asking about the Reply-to:
and From: address fields.  People sometimes customize weird things into
them that are not valid addresses.


Joseph Brennan
Lead Email Systems Engineer
Columbia University Information Technology





> Quoting Joseph Brennan <brennan at columbia.edu>:
>
>>
>>
>> --On Thursday, February 1, 2007 10:38 -0500
>> dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
>>
>>> I have one user (for now) who uses entourage on an apple laptop.  When
>>> replying to her emails with horde 3.1.1 and imp 4.1.3 I get the
>>> following error message:
>>> Not Acceptable
>>
>>
>> Check the Reply-to: header line of her message, or if there isn't one,
>> the From: header line.  Maybe she has something weird there.
>>
>> Joseph Brennan
>> Lead Email Systems Engineer
>> Columbia University Information Technology
>
>
>
> --
> Dwayne Hottinger
> Network Administrator
> Harrisonburg City Public Schools
>