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: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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