[11427] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6Q: mail service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Sat Nov 27 16:15:34 1993
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 93 16:15:24 EST
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
System name: m16-034-27
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.6Q
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
send mail... I mistyped 'abelenky' as 'abel,enky' in the to: line
What's wrong:
I got two bounces. one for 'enky' - user unknown. the other for
'abel' as follows:
From: MAILER-DAEMON@MIT.EDU (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
To: <shabby@MIT.EDU>
----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 Cannot exec /site/mit/jon/bin/mail_dir_entry: No such file or directory
554 =abel=@ambig... Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
Received: from M16-034-27.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP
id AA16455; Sat, 27 Nov 93 16:07:47 EST
Received: by m16-034-27.MIT.EDU (5.0/4.7) id AA07035; Sat, 27 Nov 93 16:07:42 EST
Message-Id: <9311272107.AA07035@m16-034-27.MIT.EDU>
To: saturn@MIT.EDU, lisiecki@MIT.EDU, avondale@MIT.EDU, krlynch@MIT.EDU,
michelel@MIT.EDU, djablon@MIT.EDU, dliebson@MIT.EDU, wjgjr@MIT.EDU,
gandhi@MIT.EDU, abel@MIT.EDU, enky@MIT.EDU, surak@MIT.EDU
What should have happened:
Seems to me that something was left inconsistent in the mail
servers, accessing jon's HOMEDIR, and this is probably a bad thing...
It probably should have bounced the same way.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
umm... I wouldn't know
