>In message <9406232021.AA03750@biome.bio.ns.ca>, Bill Silvert writes:
>>Any ideas here? Oh, I tried the following. I telnetted to port 25 and
>>tried both
>>
>>VRFY m_levasseur%AM%IML3@mr.dfo.ca
>>and
>>VRFY phycotoxins-outgoing
>>
>>giving
>>
>><m_levasseur%AM%IML3@mr.dfo.ca>
>><m_levasseur%AM%IML3@mr.dfo.ca (Maurice Levasseur)>
>
>I don't know. Try stripping the comment (in parens ()) from the end of his
>address on the list, and see what happens.
>
>-- John
>John Rouillard
I just wanted to second John's suggestion. I had a strange problem with 1.62
a few weeks ago where mail was delivered to some addresses but not others. I
finally figured out that the people who weren't getting mail from the list all
had comments. I manually edited the list to remove all the comments and
suddenly all users started getting the mail.
I posted a question here related to the issue, and the only real response I
got was from a gentleman who said that there might be a bug in smail/sendmail
(our site uses smail, but this might hold true for sendmail as well) such that
when passed a list, it expects the addresses to all be in the same format,
which it assumes from the first address passed. I have no idea of the
validity of this theory, and I've not done any testing. All I know is that
when I removed the comments from my address list, the list traffic started
acting properly.
Dougal
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