With regard to our overwhelming number of aberrant address
translations centering around 3/21 - 3/22:
Background:
Most of our e-mail accounts are MUSIC/SP running as guest under VM/ESA.
We run L-Mail 1.2a.  The music domain is music.stlawu.edu where the
VM domain is vm.stlawu.edu.  On the morning of 3/22 we had over 1200
undeliverable messages on POSTMAST with error code 3 - No such local user.
Where error was for:  (valid_music_id)@vm.stlawu.edu.  A small number of
these messages were from ListProc 6.0 maillist servers.  The overwhelming
majority were from Listserv 1.8* servers.
 
This used to work!  What happened?
We DID request a Name Server update from Sprint that (they say)
went into effect 2am on 3/22.  Our MX records on sprintlink.net appear to
be correct.  The problem has NOT gone away.  I have had to set up default
forwarding to MUSIC under LMail.  What am I missing?
 
For example, the following undeliverable for a music user, glab000, who
is subscribed to [log in to unmask] as:  [log in to unmask]
=====================  begin sample  =====================================
Return-Path: <>
Received: from VM.STLAWU.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@STLAWU) by VM.STLAWU.EDU (LMail
 V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3568; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:11:18 -0400
Date:     Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:10:54 -0400
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
From:     RFC822 mailer (LMail release 1.2a/1.8a) <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:  Undelivered mail
To:       [log in to unmask]
cc:       [log in to unmask]
X-Report-Type: Nondelivery; boundary="> Error description:"
 
An error was detected while processing the enclosed message. A list of
the affected recipients follows. This list is in a special format that
allows software like LISTSERV to automatically take action on incorrect
addresses; you can safely ignore the numeric codes.
 
--> Error description:
Error-For:  [log in to unmask]
Alias:      [log in to unmask]
Error-Code: 3
Error-Text: No such local user.
 
Error-End:  One error reported.
 
------------------------- Rejected message (30 lines) -------------------------
Received: from listmail.sunet.se by vm.stlawu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP;
   Mon, 03 Apr 95 11:08:04 EDT
Received: from segate.sunet.se (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by
listmail.sunet.se (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA07789; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 17:02:17
+0200
Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with
          NJE id 4425 for [log in to unmask]; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:57:20
          +0200
Received: from SEARN (NJE origin SMTPF@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail
          V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6965; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 16:57:19 +0200
Received: from ux1.cso.uiuc.edu by SEARN.SUNET.SE (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP;
          Mon, 03 Apr 95 16:57:17 +0200
Received: from [128.174.136.245] (pc245.lang.uiuc.edu) by ux1.cso.uiuc.edu with
          SMTP id AA18084 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for <[log in to unmask]>); Mon,
          3 Apr 1995 10:00:17 -0500
X-Nupop-Charset: English
Message-ID:  <[log in to unmask]>
Date:         Mon, 3 Apr 1995 09:57:27 CST
Reply-To: "Interpreting (and) translation" <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: "Interpreting (and) translation" <[log in to unmask]>
From: Jim Marchand <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      pathetisch G>E
To: Multiple recipients of list LANTRA-L <[log in to unmask]>
 
A good question, Evelyn.  Goethe was once accused of anti-Semitism because
he said "Das barocke Judendeutsch hat etwas Pathetisches an sich", with a
misunderstanding of _barock_ and _pathetisch_.  Probably the best we can do
in English (acc. to context, comme toujours) is `full of pathos', in German
`gefuehlsvoll'.  These false friends (I give my class a list of about 200)
are the bane of the translator's existence, and you have to be on the qui
vive for them.
Jim Marchand.
 
Helen P. Nulty     315-379-5979  Fax:  315-379-5539
Systems Manager                  e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
St. Lawrence University            OR     [log in to unmask]
Computer Operations, Launders Computing Center
Canton, NY  13617