[1145] in Moira
Re: unusual list behavior; log 102974
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Tue Jan 13 13:35:53 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 13:35:47 -0500
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Cc: iggy@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU, accounts@MIT.EDU, computing-help@MIT.EDU,
bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199801131609.LAA00431@marthas-vineyard.ne.mediaone.net> (message
from Ron Hoffmann on Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:09:38 -0500)
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different.
With the account `line' gone, `line' was free to become a lastname
alias. The `helpline' account had the name `Help Line' associated with
it, so now `line' points to `helpline':
danw@antharia:~> expn -verb line
220 MIT.EDU Sendmail 5.61/1.10 (MIT Mailhub) No collect or third-number calls at Tue, 13 Jan 98 13:22:54 EST
250 MIT.EDU Hello antharia.MIT.EDU, pleased to meet you
200 Verbose mode
050 line... aliased to helpline
helpline doesn't have a POBox, BUT there's another account `mrhalp'
with the name `Micro Helpline', so helpline became the lastname alias
for `mrhalp':
050 helpline... aliased to mrhalp
mrhalp has an SMTP pobox pointing to computing-help@mit.edu:
050 mrhalp... aliased to computing-help@mit.edu
And computing-help is a mailing list:
050 computing-help@mit.edu... aliased to help@team-usa.mit.edu, computer-help-mtg@menelaus.LOCAL, micro-help-mtg@menelaus.LOCAL
250-<micro-help-mtg@menelaus.LOCAL>
250-<computer-help-mtg@menelaus.LOCAL>
250 <help@team-usa.mit.edu>
221 MIT.EDU closing connection
Simple! :-}
Tom: perhaps you should flush the lastname aliases for SYSTEM, TEST,
MGMT, and other non-real accounts?
-- Dan
