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- From: stu@valinor.mythical.com (Stu Labovitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: RMail
- Keywords: Orphan mail
- Message-ID: <qiFauB2w165w@valinor.mythical.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 09:57:37 CST
- References: <a5V7TB1w165w@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca>
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- Organization: (What? Organized??) - Mythical Computer Systems
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- bcrock@happy.nuts.almanac.bc.ca (Brad Crockett) writes:
-
- > What happens when RMail processes a packet, and it is addressed to
- > a user that doesn't exist? I'm the only user on my system, and
- > RMail usually processes as 'rmail bcrock'. I happened to notice a
- > message today that processed as 'rmail nuts!happy' or something
- > like that. I suppose that it was an incorrectly addressed
- > message. I suppose a proper alias would have been able to handle
- > it, but when I logged on there was no mail for me, so I know that
- > it didn't. I took a look for it but couldn't find it in any USER,
- > SPOOL, LOST, or NEWS directories.
- >
- > Any ideas?
-
- Here are some ideas: First, you should now have a /waffle/admin/bounces
- file that will give you some info on the bogus addressee. Second, if you
- have a SYSTEM account, login to that account, type MAIL * and select the
- ORPHAN folder for a copy of the mail message. Third, you may find a new
- pseudo-user directory for a pseudo-user named ORPHAN who has a copy of
- the message in their MAILBOX.F/MAILBOX.I files.
-
- I hope that this helps!
-
- Stuart L Labovitz Internet: stu@valinor.mythical.com
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