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- From: iscyeoak@nuscc.nus.sg (YEO ANN KIAN)
- Subject: sendmail problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.055327.26865@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:53:27 GMT
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- Re: sendmail problem
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- We have three main nodes capable of receiving mails.
- These 3 nodes run AIX, SunOS and VMS respectively.
- We have defined an alias entry in the AIX node, says allstaff, in order to
- send mails to all users at these 3 nodes.
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- The alias entry in the /etc/aliases of the AIX machine is defined
- something like the following:
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- user1: user1@AIX
- user2: user2@SunOS
- user3: user3@VMS
- allstaff: user1,user2,user3
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- Under the normal situation,
- when a user sends to "allstaff" from the AIX machine,
- the mails can be despatched to all the users properly.
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- The problem comes in when one of the two machines is down, says VMS,
- the mail will be queued in the AIX machine and tried every 30 minutes
- (as we run /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q30m).
- Whenever, the queue is processed every 30 minutes while VMS is still down,
- the user of SunOS will be getting the same mail (every 30 minutes).
- THe user on the AIX does not have the problem.
- Eventually when the VMS is up,
- the user of SunOS gets multple copies of the same mail,
- but the rest (on AIX and VMS) receives only one copy.
- The sendmail does not seem to know that it has already sent
- successfully to SunOS.
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- Can any one help us with this problem pls?
- We are running AIX 3.2 on RS6000/560.
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- AnnKian Yeo
- yeoak@iscs.nus.sg
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