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- From: meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- Subject: RE: Mailing List Problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.214617.3400@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Sender: news@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- Reply-To: meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- Organization: U. of Iowa - Weeg Computing Center
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:46:17 GMT
- Lines: 87
-
- Just thought the group would like to know that Matt Madison sent me
- a message that cured the problems I was talking about the last couple of
- days regarding problems with an "invalid address" of Postmaster@mynode...
-
- As usual, Matt was able to pin down the problem & offer an easy fix.
- In case anyone else runs into this, here's my latest posting & his answer:
-
- >>******** My posting **********
- >> I posted yesterday regarding a mailing list I set up successfully, but
- >>have been unable to get things like HELP file to be sent to subscribers. I
- >>have turned on debug for MLF, ROUTER, and SMTP. The MLF logs look good, but
- >>the ROUTER and SMTP logs both complain about Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >>being an "invalid address"!? - I have an alias set up in MCP for Postmaster,
- >>but it still complains & will not send out HELP files (or REVIEWs).
- >>
- >> Here are the logs from ROUTER and SMTP:
- >>
- >>======================= MX_ROUTER_LOG.LOG =================================
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:07.07 %PROCESS, Processing entry number 2063
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:08.49 %PROCESS, Status from READ_INFO was 00000001
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:08.49 %PROCESS, Recipient #0:
- >>Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:08.50 %PROCESS, Invalid address:
- >>Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:08.50 %PROCESS, Beginning ERRORQ processing.
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:08.50 %PROCESS, RETURN_MESSAGE status was 00000001
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:08.50 %PROCESS, Marking this entry as finished.
- >>
- >>======================= MX_SMTP_LOG.LOG ====================================
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:02.26 Processing queue entry number 2062 on node CSLVAX
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:03.41 Recipient: <vwcnon@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
- >>route=vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:03.41 SMTP_SEND: looking up host name vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:03.59 SMTP_SEND: Attempting to start session with
- >>vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu. [128.255.58.2]
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:03.60 SMTP_SEND: Connected
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:03.75 SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 220 vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu MX V3.1C
- >>SMTP
- >> server ready at Tue, 01 Sep 1992 12:45:04 CST
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:03.91 SMTP_SEND: Sent: HELO cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:04.08 SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 250 Hello, cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:04.08 SMTP_SEND: Sent: MAIL
- >>FROM:Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:04.09 SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 501 Invalid address:
- >>Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:04.22 SMTP send failed, sts=0C27804A, sts2=0C26806C
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:04.22 Recipient status=0C26806C for
- >><vwcnon@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:06.54 Entry now completely processed, no retries needed.
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:06.72 *** End of processing pass ***
- >>
- >>
- >> If you can give me any clues as to what I must do, please reply directly
- >>by e-mail to meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu.
- >>
- >>
- >***** Matt's Answer:
- >>
- >> server ready at Tue, 01 Sep 1992 12:45:04 CST
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:03.91 SMTP_SEND: Sent: HELO cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:04.08 SMTP_SEND: Rcvd: 250 Hello, cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu
- >> 1-SEP-1992 12:45:04.08 SMTP_SEND: Sent: MAIL FROM:Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.u
- > ^^^^^^
- >
- >Bingo. This should read MAIL FROM:<Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu>.
- Without
- >the angle brackets, it's invalid.
- >
- >I suspect what's happening is that in composing the message to be sent to the
- >user, MLF is trying to use the first address in the DEFINE SYSTEM_USERS list
- >as the envelope FROM address, but you don't have any system_users defined,
- >so it's defaulting to Postmaster... but it's not formatting the address
- >correctly. If you add
- >
- > DEFINE SYSTEM_USERS "Postmaster@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu"
- >
- >to your configuration, you should be ok.
- >
- and, as usual, he was exactly right! After adding the above command
- via MCP, everything worked wonderfully!
-
-
- ***************************************************************************
- * Howard Meadows Sr. Systems Programmer Weeg Computing Center *
- * University Of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 Phone: 319-335-5519 *
- * email: howard-meadows@uiowa.edu *
- ***************************************************************************
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