George Frajkor <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> The Mideur-L list has been flooded with this strange mail bounce
> that I have never seeen before. It goes to the whole list, not just
> to the owner. UUnet says it is not their error, and there is no
> reply from any postmaster at the "capital" node. Can anyone tell me
> what is happening and how to stop it?
Did you try mailing to root@capital, and/or asking kdonow and taylor
who their syadmin is? When you finally get the person, tell them:
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RFC-822 Standard for Internet Text Messages
6.3. RESERVED ADDRESS
It often is necessary to send mail to a site, without know-
ing any of its valid addresses. For example, there may be mail
system dysfunctions, or a user may wish to find out a person's
correct address, at that site.
This standard specifies a single, reserved mailbox address
(local-part) which is to be valid at each site. Mail sent to
that address is to be routed to a person responsible for the
site's mail system or to a person with responsibility for general
site operation. The name of the reserved local-part address is:
Postmaster
so that "Postmaster@domain" is required to be valid.
Note: This reserved local-part must be matched without sensi-
tivity to alphabetic case, so that "POSTMASTER", "postmas-
ter", and even "poStmASteR" is to be accepted.
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> From: [log in to unmask]
> remote execution [uucp job uunetC2TC3 (3/2-3:48:37)]
> rmail kdonow taylor
> exited with status 1
>
>
> ===== stderr was =====
> Usage: rmail username
This looks like someone's primitive idea of "user not found". Do you
have list members named kdonow@capital and taylor@capital? If so,
try setting each, one at a time, to NOMAIL and see if you still get
the error.
If NOMAILing a particular one of them makes the error go away, then
it's likely that person no longer is a user at capital.
If NOMAILing *either* one of them makes the error go away, then
capital's rmail can't handle multiple user names. You can get around
this by breaking up their distribution; set one of them to
[log in to unmask], and the other to [log in to unmask], or
[log in to unmask], or somesuch.
There may be a way to tell LISTSERV to specifically not mail them
together, too....?
Steve
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