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Subject: Re: Things were all right until....
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 08:15:27 -0600 (CST)
To: kitchen @ adsight . com (Hell's Kitchen Online)
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <2.2.16.19970306060910.304fa4a6@hellskitchen.net> from "Hell's Kitchen Online" at Mar 6, 97 01:09:10 am
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

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[ Hell's Kitchen Online writes: ]
> 
> We're fairly new with Majordomo and are just starting to put it through its
> paces. We have a regular list and a digest list, it's moderated and has
> archives. Sending out several announcements and getting the bounces we were
> able to "clean" the list. Subscribe/Unsubscribe and posting to the regular
> list seems to work fine.
> 
> We have everyone send to the mail list and it all piles up for the digest.
> Well our digest went over the trigger mark and whoops! We started getting
> tons of returns.
> 
> Below is a typical return message. These ranged from user unknown to Remote
> Protocol Error. Many were from known good addresses. Notice on the From:,
> Sender: and Errors-To: lines the domain indicates AOL and not our server
> (cnct.com).
[ deleted ]
> I'm thinking this may be an alias problem, specifically with the usage of
> the trailing comma.

More likely your mail system isn't configured to always fully
qualify addresses and AOL's mail system is. You sent out
unqualified headers (i.e. just owner-nytenants-digest instead of
owner-nytenants-digest@cnct.com) and AOL qualified them the only way it
could (i.e. by appending its domain).

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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