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  • 1.  Address resolution and the $recipient$ variable in Notifications

    Posted Aug 26, 2010 06:06 PM

    If I use the $recipient$ variable in an notification, and have address resolution enabled, will it use the orginal address, or the address found during address resolution?


  • 2.  RE: Address resolution and the $recipient$ variable in Notifications

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Aug 30, 2010 02:34 PM
    Since it uses LDAP to check during the MTA conversation, it seems like we would have the new recipient in the message by the time the content compliance engine sees it to create the notification.

    What are you seeing in your testing?


  • 3.  RE: Address resolution and the $recipient$ variable in Notifications

    Posted Aug 30, 2010 05:16 PM

    Testing shows that inbound, address resolution has completed by the time notification has resolved the $recipient$ variable.  However, OUTBOUND mailflows do not resolve to ultimate recipient.

    We have a DMZ and a seperate internal install (Core).   Interal hosts talk to the outbound i/f of the core boxes because they send to both external and local domains.  The Core boxes act as a smart host providing routing, and allows us to block outbound port 25 outbound from internal hosts.   We are migrating some users to a new domain, and I want'ed to create an internal notice "Your recipient has a new address:  $recipient%",  but that doesn't work outbound.   I think I have a issue logged for this -- that outbound address resolution isn't performed --  as it prevents correcting routing on internally sourced mail.  The only workaround I've thought of is to spin up a VM SGB and have my core -- for the going-away domain -- route traffic to it's inbound i/f so I can implement this.