Direct Mailer Sends Message to Incorrect Recipient

• Microsoft Site Server version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

Direct Mailer may send e-mail messages to an incorrect recipient. For example, User1 may receive an e-mail message that is supposed to go to User2. When this problem occus, User1 receives two e-mail messages that are intended for other users. Note that this only occurs intermittently under stress.

CAUSE

Direct Mailer performs an Address Book lookup against ou=members in the directory. Although this is performed correctly, the process of resolving the names in a distribution list is done asynchronously. As a result of a timing problem, an incorrect address is used to build a message.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Site Server 3.0. For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q219292 How to Obtain the Latest Site Server 3.0 Service Pack

STATUS

This problem was first corrected in Site Server 3.0 Service Pack 3.

Additional query words:

Keywords : SS3SP3Fix
Version : winnt:3.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug