Body of email breaks distribution list in exchange?

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Published on 2009-11-11T09:54:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 12:03 UTC
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Hi,

I have a very odd problem that I'm not sure is a programming issue or a server issue :-p.

Basically I'm sending an email to an exchange distribution list that includes a PHP stack trace; during certain faults the trace includes really high level information such as the machine's environment variables (during file reads, etc.).

I went through a copy of the email line by line until the email sent and it appears the line:

[SUDO_COMMAND] => /etc/init.d/httpd restart

is the culprit. Adding a string replacement in before the email is sent allows a successful send. What I don't understand is WHY these stream of characters are causing the issue ONLY on the distribution email.

If I send the email to myself as well, i.e. "[email protected]; [email protected]", then I get the email fine. Re-ordering the list doesn't make a difference the group never gets the email.

Because the individual gets the email and not the group I'm assuming the fault is with exchange and some rogue filtering - I've gone through it with the sysadmins and there's no filtering of any sort on that group... so maybe it's a bug?

I can't find anyone else having recorded this specific fault so I figured I'd open it here. For now I'm just not using the distribution list but it'd be nice to eventually find the solution.

Many thanks, Chris

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