On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Nick Simicich wrote:
> It does seem odd to me that you were even seeing the mail sent to these
> incorrect adddresses. Gosh, most mail systems tend to just bounce that
> mail without human intervention. What mail system were you using? Some
> hack that funnelled all mail to some domain to a particular mailbox?
A 'hack' it may be, but a very common one for many hosted domains on ISPs.
E.g. maybe I get 'mydomain.com' hosted on my ISP, and they direct all mail
for 'mydomain.com' to my e-mail box. It's not even that much of a hack;
most mail servers allow it as a standard feature, e.g. something like a
line in sendmail's mailertable reading:
mydomain.com local:user
To redirect all mydomain.com mail to 'user@<isp>'.
This makes it difficult to bounce mail since, technically, there -are- no
nonexistant addresses. It's also a royal pain when people ask about
setting up listservers under a configuration like this, since it involves
teaching them Procmail, usually. :)
This is probably why he had the problem he did.
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Re: AOL
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