[3730] in SIPB bug reports
No response from mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun May 9 20:58:21 1993
Date: Sun, 9 May 93 20:57:48 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@GZA.COM>
To: mp%mpa15c@trenga.tredydev.unisys.com
Cc: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Theodore Ts'o's message of Thu, 29 Apr 93 08:20:31 -0400 <9304291220.AA22518@SOS>
On April 28, you wrote to postmaster@MIT.EDU:
>Over the last few weeks I've sent several messages to the
>mail-server address which I have used innummerable times
>in the past. However, I am no longer receiving replies of
>any kind.
>
>Can you tell if something has changed in regards to using
>the server? Is it permanantly down?
There is nothing wrong with the mail server. It had a day-long outage
about a month ago, but even that should not have caused any requests
to be lost, just delayed.
If you are not receiving responses, then either (a) your mail is not
reaching the mail server, or (b) your mail header does not contain a
return address that the mail server can understand.
I suggest putting a "path address" command in your requests to the
server, where "address" is replaced by a return address which you know
will work. If you do not receive any response to a request with that
address in it, then please let me know and I will check to see if the
request ever got to the server.
By the way, you should be using mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu rather than
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu (although pit-manager will still
work). Also, questions about problems with the server should be sent
to owner-mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu, not to postmaster@MIT.EDU.
Jonathan Kamens Geer Zolot Associates jik@GZA.COM
