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Subject: Majordomo and bouncing?
From: David Casti <disc @ vector . casti . com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 06:50:41 -0500 (EST)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
Reply-to: David Casti <disc @ vector . casti . com>

Hi folks,

I think I'm having an unusual problem with Majordomo.  Someone from delphi
is sending mail to majordom which it can't understand.  Instead of
bouncing an error of some sort back to the offending delphi user, a
message which looks like this goes back to postmaster@delphi.com: 

 Return-path: <majordom@vector.casti.com>
 Return-path: majordom@vector.casti.com
 Received: from vector.casti.com by delphi.com (PMDF V4.2-11 #6311) id
  <01H95MG9H9G08WY62J@delphi.com>; Mon, 21 Feb 1994 17:45:03 EST
 Received: by vector.casti.com (NX5.67d/5.931230) id AA03959; Mon,
  21 Feb 94 17:44:52 -0500
 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 17:44:52 -0500
 From: Majordomo@vector.casti.com
 Subject: Majordomo results
 To: postmaster@delphi.com
 Reply-to: Majordomo@vector.casti.com
 Message-id: <9402212244.AA03959@vector.casti.com>
 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT   

 --

 >>>> --Boundary (ID /5XeBSE6cPKP+t2o6FTyMg)
 END OF COMMANDS


I've looked through my sendmail logs, and I do find some suspicious-looking
entries like: 

Feb 21 18:20:01 vector sendmail[4292]: AA04292: from=<>, size=6453, 
class=0, received from delphi.com (192.80.63.3)

Followed almost immediately by mail back to postmaster@delphi.com.

Two questions:

  First, and most obviously, how can I throw those messages away instead of
  sending them back to postmaster@delphi.com?

  Second, why are they going to postmaster@delphi and not postmaster locally?

Thanks,
David.



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