[4682] in Athena Bugs
Oops
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 3 19:10:17 1990
From: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: accounts@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, postmaster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: marc@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 90 19:09:53 EDT
This is causing a bounce on all mail sent to staff:
<69> portnoy:/mit/sipb/rtbin> blanche -i staff_misc
List: staff_misc
Description: Miscellaneous staff members
Flags: active, private, and visible
staff_misc is not a maillist and is not a group
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Owner: USER aida
Last modified by jnrees with mrtest on 02-apr-1990 17:49:15
<74> portnoy:/mit/sipb/rtbin> blanche -m staff
LIST:directors
LIST:vcg_all
LIST:advdev
LIST:extrel
LIST:e_i
LIST:userservices
LIST:sysops
LIST:administration
LIST:staff_misc
LIST:watchmakers
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To: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> RCPT To:<staff>
<<< 550 staff_misc... User unknown: No such file or directory
550 staff... User unknown
Not making staff_misc was obviously an oversight by the accounts
people. I'm sending this to bugs because I think it's a bug that
staff_misc was added to the aliases file on athena w/o it being a real
address. A mischevious or error-prone user could generate a lot of
errors this way.
I just tried telnetting to athena and doing expn staff. I think
NOBODY on staff is getting this mail (there were cc's, so this wasn't
obvious to me at first). This makes things even worse. Athena should
at least send to the rest of the people on the list, even if one
person is non-existent. If I'm wrong, then at least expn is broken.
Postmaster: Do what you will (or won't :-) to fix it.
Marc
