[11687] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: expn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MIT Ballroom Dance Club)
Tue Feb 1 13:38:03 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 94 13:37:51 EST
From: MIT Ballroom Dance Club <bdclub@MIT.EDU>
System name: primavera
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G (2 update(s) to same version)
Display type:
What were you trying to do?
Set up a mailing list and check its contents with expn
What's wrong:
If I enter an invalid (non-existent) LOCAL user (e.g., as just a login name)
into the mailing list, e.g.,
blanche -a xxinvalidxx listname
and then subsequently (the following day) do an
expn listname
the only output from the command is
xxinvalidxx ... User unknown
All the other (over a hundred) entries in the list are not displayed.
In fact, if there is more than one invalid entry, only one is displayed,
so I fix that one (and wait a whole day for the change to get
incorporated) only to find the next day that there is another invalid
entry. This iterative procedure (with a day between iterations) is quite
inefficient.
Furthermore, I have reason to believe, that it is not only the display
that is incomplete, but if I actually send mail to the list name, it seems
to behave erratically in sending even the valid users the mail (some get it
and some don't).
What should have happened:
1) If there are invalid entries in the list, expn should still list all
the valid ones (in addition to identifying the invlaid ones), as it
normally does when there are no invalid entries.
2) If there are invalid entries in the mailing list, mailing to the list
should still result in the mail correctly and consistently reaching all
the valid addresses.
(No. 2 is a suspicion. No. 1 is a definite problem.)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
A related problem: there is no "man" listing for expn--there used to be
a few years ago when I last checked (and when I first reported this bug!!).
