[17876] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.3.29: chpobox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Wed May 31 13:08:49 2000
Message-Id: <200005311708.NAA23608@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:08:43 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
System name: geskekelud.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.29 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
chpobox -s a user (dlations) to a new forwarding address. He
was forwarding his mail already to an address that bounced.
What's wrong:
Because he had never had a pobox, I got the following error:
geskekelud: ~]% chpobox -u dlations -s dlations@rocko.mit.edu
chpobox: Unknown machine while setting pobox for dlations to type SMTP, box dlations@rocko.mit.edu
User dlations, Type SMTP, Box: dl@batespop.mit.edu
Modified by dlations on 13-jan-1998 16:30:24 with mailfwd
Creating him an IMAP pobox and then attempting to set forwarding
worked okay.
What should have happened:
Um, I'm not sure. Ideally, it would have let me set the new
forwarding. Less ideally, it would have given me a somewhat
less cryptic error message.
