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- Subject: Bogus "alias loop" message
- Message-ID: <DHOLLAND.92Jul29105339@husc10.harvard.edu>
- From: dholland@husc10.harvard.edu (David Holland)
- Date: 29 Jul 92 10:53:39
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA
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- Attempting to send mail to an invalid remote address causes the following
- error message when trying to return the mail to its sender:
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- <username>...possible alias loop
-
- This occurs regardless of the user who tries.
-
- The environment is a LAN of approximately thirty Suns not connected to the
- outside world; the mail server runs Sun sendmail using Sun's configuration
- file for mailhosts with a couple of local modifications. Using the original
- version of the config file produces the same results.
-
- /etc/aliases and the corresponding NIS map contain only Sun's distribution
- aliases (postmaster -> root, nobody -> /dev/null, and MAILER-DAEMON ->
- postmaster).
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- Has anybody else seen this? Can anybody tell me what might be causing it?
-
- (Running sendmail with maximum debugging information produces lots of info
- about address parsing, but nothing relevant.)
-
- help...
-
- --
- - David A. Holland dholland@husc.harvard.edu
-
- Feel disillusioned? I've got some great new illusions...
-