Re: "proving" a user received an email (good gosh)

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu)
Date: 06/24/02 

From: Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 2002 12:29:07 GMT

rut@linuxmail.org (gaius.petronius) writes:

>exhibit A
>maillog:
>Jun 22 23:47:31 swm sendmail[5517]: g5MFlUu05517:
>from=<sender@address>, size=5988, class=0, nrcpts=2,
>msgid=<4778858448D8547D4A54BCC6118467D@>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA

>i also see in
>exhibit B
>maillog:
>Jun 22 23:47:31 swm sendmail[5518]: g5MFlUu05517: to=<BigLiar>,
>delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=65536, dsn=2.0.0,
>stat=Sent
>maillog:Jun 22 23:47:31 swm sendmail[5518]: g5MFlUu05517:
>to=<AngryBOSS>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
>pri=65536, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

>My question is, although i know that this 22:23:47:31 is most probably
>the mail in question, how can i link it to the message id
>78858448D8547D4A54BCC6118467D@ ??

Sendmail identifies each message with a queuid. All of those
log record have the same queuid "g5MFlUu05517". Therefore they all
refer to the same message.

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