E-mail source depends on the observer?

[Mailing List <mlist -at- ca -dot- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

All, appealing to the technically learned and astute....

This is technical, and it's communication related.  :-)

Our company was originally Chrysalis-ITS, and had servers 
that said so.

Then, last summer, Rainbow Technologies bought us.
So, we all acquired e-mail addresses "xxx -at- ca -dot- rainbow -dot- com"
but it was still the old Chrysalis servers actually handling 
the mail (we use Outlook on our desktops, connecting to 
Exchange Server).

Then, this year, SafeNet bought Rainbow. 
So, we all acquired "xxx -at- ca -dot- safenet-inc -dot- com" addresses, 
but it was still the old Chrysalis servers... you get the
idea. 

PROBLEM
When I send a message, SOME people see it coming from 
"mlist -at- ca -dot- safenet-inc -dot- com", and OTHER people see it from 
"mlist -at- ca -dot- rainbow -dot- com".  I'm not the only one at the company 
with the problem, but I'm the one connected to several 
mailing lists, so it's a big problem for me. 

(I can demonstrate the thing by sending a message to [say] 
 somebody -at- sympatico -dot- ca and somebody-else -at- magma -dot- ca, and 
 the sympatico recipient sees me as SafeNet, while the 
 Magma recipient sees me as Rainbow.  Same message. Yuck!)

If I send to some of those lists, they bounce my mail, saying 
that 'mlist -at- ca -dot- safenet-inc -dot- com" is not a member. Fine.
If I try to subscribe, the listserver gets confused and either 
can't send me the confirmation message, or doesn't believe 
me when I respond to confirm.

There seem to be two camps out there, with regard to parsing 
message headers. I'd like to resume technically communicating 
again...  :-)    so if anybody has suggestions, please shout.
If this seems too off-topic, reply privately and I'll summarize 
for the list.

Thankee kindly,
 
/kevin (communicating brokenly)

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