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- From: stathop@danae.csi.forth.gr (Costas Stathopoylos)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Problem with .mailrc aliases.
- Message-ID: <3267@ariadne.csi.forth.GR>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 23:07:28 GMT
- Sender: news@csi.forth.GR
- Organization: FORTH - ICS, P.O.Box 1385, Heraklio, Crete, Greece 71110
- tel: +30(81)221171, 229302 fax: +30(81)229342,3 tlx: 262389 CCI
- Lines: 30
-
- Hi,
- A few days ago one of our mail users encountered the following problem:
- suppose he has an alias command in his .mailrc of the form:
- alias project-members recip1@domain1 recip2@domain2 recip3 recip4 .... recip8@domain8 recip9
- Whe he send mail addressed to project-members after the alias is expanded
- and his machine's sendmail connects to the mailhost he gets the following error
- message:
-
- ----- Transcript of session follows -----
-
- ERROR: domain8 recip9 not in UUCP routing tables
-
-
- 554 recip1@domain1 recip2@domain2 recip3 recip4 .... recip8@domain8 recip9... Service unavailable
-
- Obviously for some mysterious reason sendmail considers the whole alias
- expansion an one-recipient address of the form:
- (brackets are just for clarity)
- [recip1@domain1 recip2@domain2 recip3 recip4 .... recip8]@[domain8 recip9]
- ^^^
- the last "@" sign
-
- I tried to test the error condition myself by using a similar alias in my
- .mailrc and sending mail from the same machine but I get no error (ie. message
- is delivered normally)! Could someone out there enlighten me giving some ideas
- in what causes this non-deterministic error(Which has preferance to
- the specific user...)??
-
- Greetings and thanks,
- Costas.
-