One more thing. Does Hotmail play a role in this at your site?
One of my colleagues did some googling and sent me this link
http://www.unicom.com/chrome/a/000267.html
which identifies Hotmail as the source of those additional headers:
"The Hotmail DAV interface not only allows spammers to relay junk email,
but it also allows them to forge headers. When mail goes through the
Hotmail web form, you can at least be assured the return address ties back
to some valid account. When mail goes through the DAV interface, for
instance, spammers can forge any return address they choose.
Hotmail must have known this would be a problem. To provide some sort of
accountability, they slap some additional header information onto mail that
comes through the DAV interface. They insert headers called
X-OriginalArrivalTime:, X-Originating-IP:. and X-Originating-Email: into
the relayed message. These headers provide trace information, in case you
need to locate the source of the message. "
Like I said, nvmail is not adding them.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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Let me get this straight. You are seeing theses messages in addition to
what you sent via nvmail, correct? It works but has these strange things
appended to the end?
What syntax are you using for nvmail? And what kind of mail server are you
using? What kind of e-mail system gets the response?
I see no such additions when I use it here, in either message mode or file
mode. I am sending to a mail server on UNIX and reading the results via
Lotus Notes. I have used Outlook before.
Under the covers the nvmail code opens a session with a mail server and it
has to specify things like a return path in order to do that, but that's
not part of what we tell the mail server to send. We certainly didn't
add "X-OriginalArrivalTime:" to the message so far as I can see. That
looks to me like something the mail server added when it sent the message
to you.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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Thank you James!!
But I have checked with Mail Admin and as per him it is from NVMail
only! Anyway I will have to search for some other tool.
Best Regards,
Abdul Gafoor
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nvmail is not sending those messages. Your SMTP mail server is. nvmail
just sends the message you designate to an SMTP mail server you also
designate. That's all. You need to configure, or the owner of that
server, needs to configure it, if you don't like the results.
NetView does not provide a mail tool other than nvmail. And even that is
only a front-end to something else.
But you are free to search the web and find any other tool you like.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
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Hi,
Being very new in Tivoli Netview (using Netview 7.1.4 for Windows),
I
would like to know ,can I use any other mailing utility other than
NVMail.If not, is it possible to remove the following entries from
NVMail
Message since it doesn't look meaningful!!!
"Return-Path:
Administrator@IPTEC
Message-ID:
<FMGRTxY5ksqQFxnPagM0000afc0@fmgrt.rt.i-flex.com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2005 12:00:35.0128
(UTC) FILETIME=[7FE6FB80:01C5F993]"
If anybody can give a solution for this, will be well appreciated as
we
are recently switched from another other NMS Tool to Netview where we
were
getting Mail alerts properly.
Best Regards,
Abdul Gafoor
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