Email resent headers 5 months later
Hi,
I hope everyone is well.
I am trying to determine the reason a mail appeared in my clients Outlook inbox 5 months after the mail was originally sent.
Mail header:
What I have determined thus far: The original mail was sent and received Mon, 7 Nov 2016 At some point somehow, the mail was "resent" Wed, 12 Apr 2017, but not by the original sender. It looks to me that my server resent the mail at the new date for whatever reason (Although I could be wrong). My question is, why was this mail resent (if it was), and was is resent by a human, or by the server?
Return-Path:
Delivered-To: recipient@domainname.com
Received: from myserverhostname by myserverhostname (Dovecot) with LMTP id i2aaAfzo7ViPtgcAMIJ*** for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:44:44 +0200
Return-path:
Envelope-to: recipient@domainname.com
Delivery-date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:44:44 +0200
Received: from [::1] (port=47698 helo=myserverhostname) by myserverhostname with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1cy***-0027Uv-Io for recipient@domainname.com; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:44:44 +0200
Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:44:44 +0200
Resent-From: username@myserverhostname
Resent-To: recipient
Resent-Message-ID: <20170412104444.Horde.Zlr-JQrnT54QyXjf7o0dBy5@myserverhostname>
Delivered-To:username@myserverhostname
Received: from myserverhostname by myserverhostname (Dovecot) with LMTP id gfRWOayAIFhNlwoAMIJW9Q for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:25:00 +0200
Received: from rrba-ip-smtp-3-3.saix.net ([196.25.240.213]:38984) by myserverhostname with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1c3juy-002uYq-9E for recipient@domainname.com; Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:25:00 +0200
Received: from SenderPC (unknown [105.184.**.**]) by rrba-ip-smtp-3-3.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB651041 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:24:08 +0200 (SAST)
From: "Sender Name "
To:
Subject: Purchase Order POA34334
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:24:07 +0200
Message-ID: <019901d238fa$3a48ba70$aeda2f50$@sendersdomain.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_019A_01D2390A.FDD18A70"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8
X-Spam-Score: 18
X-Spam-Bar: +
X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "myserverhostname", has NOT identified this incoming email as spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see root\@localhost for details.
What I have determined thus far: The original mail was sent and received Mon, 7 Nov 2016 At some point somehow, the mail was "resent" Wed, 12 Apr 2017, but not by the original sender. It looks to me that my server resent the mail at the new date for whatever reason (Although I could be wrong). My question is, why was this mail resent (if it was), and was is resent by a human, or by the server?
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Hello, You can search for the message in /var/log/exim_mainlog to see how Exim processed the delivery. EX: exigrep MSGID /var/log/exim_mainlog
Thank you.0 -
Hi @cPanelMichael, Thank you for answering so quickly. How long does the exim_mainlog keep entries for? I attempted the command and nothing was returned. Thank you 0 -
The log is pruned when it reaches the threshold size configured for your log rotation. You can try appending * to the end of the log file name to have it search the archives. EX: exigrep MSGID /var/log/exim_mainlog*
Thank you.0
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