Recently my server received a subscription request from a user at CUNYVM. For reasons unrelated to this query, the subscription request bounced. What I'm trying to understand is: how did a real mail origin of CUNYVM become "CUNYVM.HARVARD.EDU"???? Edited excerpt from LISTSERV console log: 29 Mar 1993 18:15:58 Processing file 8584 from MAILER@HARVARDA 29 Mar 1993 18:15:58 From [log in to unmask]: SUBSCRIBE LLLLLL-L ... 29 Mar 1993 18:15:58 To [log in to unmask]: Sorry, list LLLLLL-L ... 03/27/93 23:23 by (...) 29 Mar 1993 18:15:59 Sent information mail to [log in to unmask] Edited excerpt of LISTSERV's reply to user (which was in turn bounced back to me): >Received: from HARVARDA.BITNET by HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU (Mailer R2.08 R208004) > with BSMTP id 9187; Mon, 29 Mar 93 18:16:01 EST >Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 18:16:02 -0500 >From: Revised List Processor (1.7e) <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Delivery error report from HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU >To: Hobart Braden <[log in to unmask]> >cc: Melanie Goldman <[log in to unmask]> >X-LSV-ListID: None > >The enclosed mail file, found in the LISTSERV reader and shown under the >spoolid 8586 in the console log, has been identified as a possible delivery >error notice for the following reason: mail origin is defined as a mailer in >BITEARN NODES. > >------------------------- Message in error (31 lines) ------------------------- >Received: from HARVARDA by HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with > BSMTP id 9185; Mon, 29 Mar 93 18:16:01 EST >Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 18:16:00 EST >From: <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Undeliverable Mail > >HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU unable to deliver following mail to recipient(s): > <[log in to unmask]> >550 Host 'CUNYVM.HARVARD.EDU' Unknown > > ** Text of Mail follows ** >Received: from HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU by HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) > with BSMTP id 0859; Mon, 29 Mar 93 18:15:59 EST >Received: from HARVARDA.BITNET by HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU (Mailer R2.08 R208004) > with BSMTP id 9183; Mon, 29 Mar 93 18:15:59 EST >Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1993 18:15:59 -0500 >From: Revised List Processor (1.7e) <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Output of your job "XXXXX" >To: [log in to unmask] > >> SUBSCRIBE LLLLLL-L ... >Sorry, list LLLLLL-L ... >... Thanks in advance for any help or insight that anyone can offer. -- Hobart Braden