On 25 Jun 98, at 9:46, Raewyn Smith <rsmith@unitec.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> Last week or thereabouts I sent a message outline my problem and asking for
> ideas, which sadly received absolutely no replies. I'll have one more go in a
> desperate attempt to gather any more clues to what is going on and the
> solution.
>
> The problem is that when a message is sent to a mailing list, one of the
> addresses does work. Instead of getting sent to the correct email address,
Umm... I assume you mean "does not work".
> somewhere along the line the message tries to be delivered to
> list-name@correct.host.name. ie the name of the mailing list gets put together
> with the last part of the email address. A "user can't be found" message gets
> sent back to the person who sent the message (not to the list owner, which is a
> puzzle in itself) and of course the postmaster at the other end gets very upset
> with me for sending email to a user who doesn't exist.
Just a guess, but it sounds as though there's a confused mail relay
somewhere along the route. If it were me, I would start by looking at
my mail logs to verify that messages to the particular address left my
site intact, then start tracing the path the messages take. Also, it
might be worthwhile to contact the postmasters for the sites in
question; they might be willing to help you.
> This only happens with one address, but it happenned a while ago with another
> address on a different list. That problem seemed to go away all by itself
> which isn't much help.
If the problem is a mail host, this would be consistent with a site
that has multiple mail handlers, one or more of which is misbehaving.
Which one you get would depend on MX records, network status, etc.
HTH, ALAL
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