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Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11> |
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Sun, 24 Aug 1986 21:32 SET |
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Jose Maria Blasco Comellas <ZCCBJBC@EB0UB011> |
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Marc Shannon found a problem in LISTSERV's handling of 'command' mailfiles:
when he sends mail to [log in to unmask] (== listserv@cmuccvma), LISTSERV
replies with a mailfile saying "List te.cc.cm does not exist" (the message came
from [log in to unmask]). The reason for this is that LISTSERV does not "know"
that CMUCCVMA == vma.cc.cmu.edu, and the mail file is therefore not treated as
a command. It is therefore supposed to be a normal mailing file, and the corres
ponding (and truncated) list does not exist, of course. The listname is picked
from the list, where it has been put by LSVPROF before transferring the file
from the list userid. Now a reply of "List (distcode) does not exist" seems to
be very unfriendly... Why don't I pick the listname from the "To:" header? Just
because of those darned mailing from ARPAland which do not have the destination
userid in the "To:" field, when they have a "To:" field at all... *sigh* You
get a mess commensurate with the protocol you've chosen (RFC822) :-(
Eric
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