[1539] in Athena Bugs
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Dec 15 22:35:00 1988
From: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 22:34:38 EST
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Do we know about this "officially"?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 17:31:13 EST
From: Joe Harrington <jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, simsong@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Thu, 15 Dec 88 11:26:29 EST <8812151626.AA00426@W20-575-22.MIT.EDU>
Subject: owner-sipb
Cc: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
According to John Kohl (I think), the following mode of lossage exists
on Athena's mailing lists. The pikans mailing list is experiencing
just this problem:
Someone sends mail to the list.
An address in the list is incorrect, and the mail bounces back.
Something at athena intercepts the mailbounce, routes it to the list
owner (pikans-acl, or sipb-acl).
Unfortunately, it has already decided that certain substitutions have
already been made (they haven't, or are being made again, or some
such), and so the address strings are wrong, and they bounce, twice
per message -- one for the athena.mit.edu address and once for the po
address of each member of the acl.
The mailer (again, I'm not sure where this is all taking place) then
rebounces the mail, successfully, but rips out the original offending
address string in the process. (***STUPID**)
Thus, for every original message sent to the mailing list, all the
members of the acl get a message containing two bad addresses for
themselves and each of the other members of the acl.
Athena is "aware of the problem", I have been told, though not
officially.
--jh--
