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- Date: 30 JUL 92 03:02:13 GMT
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- Subject: Re: Possible Bug?? (fwd)
- X-RFC822-From: Harry Hopcroft <hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu>
- From: Harry Hopcroft <hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu>
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- >
- > The default MultiNet installation has POSTMASTER set to SYSTEM
- > for this reason. Whatever the destination of the POSTMASTER account, it
- > should have forwarding disabled and perhaps even be on the system
- > disk with a lot of quota to prevent this problem.
- >
- > Ken
- >
- Ken, what does "POSTMASTER set to SYSTEM" actually mean? I don't know of any
- aliasing system or anything like that. On our other VAX, also running
- Multinet, I did notice that POSTMASTER and SYSTEM have the same UIC, and that
- is how I set up the problem system this morning. Should the SMTP symbiont
- really have been just as happy sending the response to SYSTEM even without
- POSTMASTER being defined in SYSUAF.DAT? Or do both need to be defined, but
- giving them the same UIC mean both read the same mail?
-
- Thanks!
-
- Harry Hopcroft
- hopcroft@polar.bowdoin.edu
-