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I have one person who sometimes get's email meant for other people.
I check
the header and it's supposed to go to another person's mailbox. the
person it
supposed to go to did not get the email.
this happens to only one person, the one person get's the email, so
far
emails meant for two different people, the issue seems to come and
go.
outlook XP and 2003, I use MS EXCHANGE SP2.
You checked WHAT header? The To/Cc fields are NOT used in specifying
the recipient of an e-mail. When an e-mail is composed, the e-mail
client composes an aggregate list of recipients from the To, Cc, and
Bcc *fields* displayed in the e-mail program's UI. It then issues (to
the sending mail server) a separate RCPT-TO for each recipient and
follows with a single DATA command (to send the *data* of your e-mail,
and that includes the To and Cc *fields* from the UI). The e-mail
client doesn't really need the To, Cc, or Bcc fields in a UI. A
listserver works by doing the same commands as a normal e-mail client
but it gets its list of recipients from a separate file, so nothing in
the *data* of the e-mail body (which includes the To and Cc fields) is
used in specifying the recipient. The sending mail server only cares
about who were specified by the RCPT-TO commands that it received from
the e-mail client, not what was in the body of the e-mail sent with
the DATA command (which includes the To and Cc fields).
If the e-mail showed up in your mailbox then sender sent it to your
mailbox regardless of what it says in the To or Cc headers (and you,
as the recipient, will never see the Bcc field). If it is external
e-mails coming into your Exchange server, the sending mail server told
the Exchange server to put it in your mailbox. If it is another
sender within your same Exchange organization then something is
screwed up in the Global Address book or wherever the sender got the
recipient's name. You could also look at the properties for the
intended recipient to see what SMTP data is recorded for it.
