> >>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.
It is a very well-known feature (but apparently not to you ;-) of smail
that lists are treated as if they were a single header.
For example,
To: clowns
where /usr/lib/smail/lists/clowns looks like
bozo
krusty
koko
is equivalent to
To: bozo krusty koko
However, this also means that if the list file contains
bozo
"Krusty T. Klown" <krusty>
koko (Koko The Clown)
it is equivalent to
To: bozo "Krusty T. Klown" <krusty> koko (Koko The Clown)
...which has a lot of comment and only one address, <krusty>.
End-of-line is not treated as a delimiter.
You may address this either by:
- using the "strip" option of majordomo
- hacking your majordomo code to write commas at the end of each line
---
ROGER B.A. KLORESE rogerk@QueerNet.ORG
2215-R Market Street #576 San Francisco, CA 94114 +1 415 ALL-ARFF
"There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy." -- Paul Rudnick
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