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Subject: Re: Majordomo on Solaris 2.5.1
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <nmehl @ leftbank . com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:45:10 -0400 (EDT)
To: mlivings @ BayNetworks . com (Mark Livingston)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199609242109.RAA00105@pobox.BayNetworks.com> from "Mark Livingston" at Sep 24, 96 05:10:15 pm
Reply-to: nmehl @ leftbank . com

In the immortal words of Mark Livingston:
> 
> > Message delivered to mailing list [listname]
> > 554 [listname]... aliasing/forwarding loop broken
> 
> If I put one mail address in the list, it works fine.
> 
> The problem is that we just upgraded our mail server 
> from a Sparc20 running SunOS 4.1.3_u1 to the Ultra and
> this wasn't a problem under SunOS.

I believe that Solaris has a different version of sendmail pre-installed
than Sunos 4.1.x. -- it probably parses the aliases file in a somewhat
different manner.  See the relevant man pages.  (And upgrade to 8.7.6
if you haven't already.)

-n

--
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Nathan J. Mehl -- The Left Bank Operation 
(work) nmehl@leftbank.com -- http://www.leftbank.com   
(play) nmehl@blank.org    -- http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nmehl/


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