December 09, 2003
Exchange is retarded

I'm writing a mail-filtering script in perl and while testing just sending all e-mail to myself. Made a typo and exchange - which is our *main* mail server, sadly - returned this error..

did not reach the following recipient(s):


c=US;a= ;p=TIXX;o=SYRACUSE;dda:SMTP=krapszo@tickets.com; on Tue, 9 Dec 2003
13:42:31 -0800
The recipient name is not recognized
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a=
;p=tixx;l=SYRS-MAIL0312092142YSQZTSW0
MSEXCH:IMS:TIXX:SYRACUSE:SYRS-MAIL 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Recipient

My first thought at seeing this mess was "Good lord, what the hell is my script doing to the headers (I am modifying them)!

Took a second eye to notice that I misspelled my own bloody name and this is exchange's way of saying "Unknown Recipient". If you squint real hard you'll notice that message at the end of the pile of cryptic, useless (to me) information.

That is just hideous and disgusting.

Posted December 09, 2003 04:59 PM in Geek Stuff
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Comments
On December 9, 2003 07:40 PM Jeremy Zawodny added:

"Exhange is retarded"

Why, yes. Yes it is. Glad you finally noticed. :-)

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On December 9, 2003 11:00 PM david added:

Somebody said I would believe it when I saw it, and seeing from that... (...)

Jeremy says it all as always.

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On December 10, 2003 01:45 AM Ryan Gregg added:

While generally I would agree, that error message is actually very helpful if something other than a typo occurs. It gives you all the information that a sysadmin needs to know to find out which server and part of the Exchange configuration was responsible for the error.

Of course, it's pretty much impossible for anyone else to understand...

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On December 10, 2003 01:51 PM Matt added:

Hmmm... that would only be a win if it was much more likely that something went wrong internally with exchange than if a user were to make a typo.

hmm...

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On December 10, 2003 03:49 PM Brian added:

[E]mail
[X]tra
[C]rap
[H]aving
[A]mbiguous
[N]asty
[G]ruesome
[E]rrors

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On December 11, 2003 12:33 PM Arcterex added:

And my magic 8 ball said "Outlook not so good". Damn it's good.

Sorry, got nuttin' today :)

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On December 12, 2003 03:50 PM Jeff Macdonald added:

I've also noticed that sending a message with a duplicate message id to an exchange server tends to get lost in exchange. Most frustrating when testing!

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