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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...
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- Organization: York University
- References: <1i24ofINNaul@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> <davecb.725923251@yorku.ca> <1993Jan2.171410.30990@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:49:06 GMT
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- rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
- [...]
- |name, and thinks it must relay it. It accepts the mail for forwarding
- |to its relay. At this stage it disconnects, and you have your "positive
- |handoff" acknowledgement. Now host B tries to send to its relay. I
- |discovers that the relay doesn't exist. It tries to bounce the message.
- |The bounce is sent to the relay. But the relay doesn't exist, so the
- |bounce also fails.
-
- |This type of situation is quite common. Newly installed machines just
- |out of the box often behave this way, and inexperienced administrators
- |may not notice the problem for several months.
-
- With respect, that's an administrator error, not a problem in the
- protocol or its normal implementation. I can make any mail system
- fail by carefull misconfiguration. Thus the definition of sendmail
- in my signature.
-
- --dave
-
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- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
- 72 Abitibi Ave., |
- Willowdale, Ontario, | York Postmaster and
- CANADA. 416-223-8968 | occasional sendfail(8) consultant.
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