Missing outbound e-mail caused by vCard signature
Oct 02, '03 10:33:00AM • Contributed by: matthewfritz
On our campus network, I was sending e-mails via the SMTP server but the messages never reached the intended recipients, nor did I receive any error messages. The messages just vanished. And the problem only occured with the college's SMTP server, not my local ISP, or .mac, etc. After fruitless conversations with our IT folks trying to convince them that it wasn't an "OS X problem" (of course they pronounced it OS "ex"), and that the problem most likely resided with the SMTP server, I decided to eliminate my vCard from my signature line. Sure enough, all messages are now traveling to their destination unimpeded.
Once I discovered this problem, I informed our IT department that the problem indeed rests with SMTP settings deleting my messages when unable to separate the message from the vCard. Of course their response was to verify that the SMTP server is configured in this manner ... with no plans to change things. Makes lots of sense, eh?!