Stupid French troublemaker

[Florian Diesch]

Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:


[...]
>> 2) Learn your ISO domain names properly, it's like geography... .BE isn't
>> French, it's Belgium.
[...]
> I suggest you read the message headers:
>
> Return-Path: <vincent.perie-oatpri at myoffice.mobistar.be>
> Received: from smtp.meplus-qf.info (ip-pub-02.meplus-qf.info [80.12.215.82])
>         by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d6si7503451fga.17.2009.05.02.10.46.51;
>         Sat, 02 May 2009 10:46:52 -0700 (PDT)
> Received: from meplus-qf.info (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> 	by mwinf9211.myorangeoffice.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 4B17E1C00097
> 	for <me>; Sat,  2 May 2009 19:46:51 +0200 (CEST)
> Received: from wwinf9205.imr.francetelecom.fr (unknown [192.168.92.253])
> 	by mwinf9211.myorangeoffice.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 43DD91C00094
> Message-ID: <26692894.5241241286411261.JavaMail.root at wwinf9205.imr.francetelecom.fr>
>
> His return path is set to .be, the messages appear to be coming from
> France. Try to reply and the mail server responds that the user is
> unknown.

mobistar.be is owned by a Belgium company, but the originating IP
address (80.12.215.82) belongs to a French company - that may be
providing services in Belgium as well. It's hard to say where's he
actually living. And IMHO it doesn't matter that much. Out-of-office
autoresponders replying to mailing list postings aren't specific to
certain countries.

   Florian
-- 
<http://www.florian-diesch.de/>