Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

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subject: exchange — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:27:58 GMT

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re: Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

Michael Dragone — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:03:20 GMT

No disassemble! Need input.

Around here MSG = Madison Square Garden, but I don't think that would've made its way into Exchange.

re: Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

Steven Presley — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:30:51 GMT

Well one could argue about the 'ain't broke' part :). When you work for a company that has e-mail objects that have multiple proxy addresses and the senders would like to 'maintain' the sending address instead of Exchange defaulting to the SMTP one.

For example:

SMTP: tjones@domain.com

smtp: tomjones@domain.com

We regularly have customers who have this type of setup and want to send out as tomjones@domain.com from time to time, but can't (at least through Exchange) because of how defaults work. We generally have them submit via SMTP to a Sendmail box when they need to do this.

I'd be nice, if one day, we could configure the 'default' behavior when it comes to addressing.

re: Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

kclemson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:33:01 GMT

Steven: My comment above about it not being broke was to the aspect of using case sensitivity... I agree with you that not letting users *choose* their outbound smtp address (which can work regardless of what is specified as the 'default', e.g. outlook with 3 pop accounts has a default but the user can override it) is a good scenario and one I hope we will be able to address soon.

re: Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

Raymond — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:03:04 GMT

As I recall, WGA = Workgroup Applications.

re: Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

kclemson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:13:55 GMT

Raymond: Yes, that was it! It was so meaningful and non-bland, what a shock that I couldn't remember it.

re: Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

Andy Grogan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:25:12 GMT

MSG = perhaps an IM address when it was integrated into Exchange 2000?

re: Strange things that happen to your email when you work on email software

pc forum — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:19:46 GMT

Great post, explained really well and I could really understand. Thank you.