[658] in Moira
Re: [ericding@MIT.EDU: Your OLC question about "mail"]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Sep 28 18:38:59 1993
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 18:38:22 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
Cc: accounts@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU, bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Tom Coppeto's message of Tue, 28 Sep 93 15:35:11 BST,
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 15:35:11 BST
From: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
moira isn't letting me in.. but it looks like there's no pobox.
My impression was that we told people to use type USER instead of type
STRING in their mailing lists so that this sort of thing wouldn't
happen. At least, it doesn't cause mailing lists to break when we
deactivate accounts, since Moira wouldn't include the deactivated user
in the aliases extract. Yet it seems that Moira isn't doing this for
users that don't have a pobox.
We probably only started noticing this when we started removing poboxes
from accounts for users weren't reading their mail; but the net result
is that when we do this, athena mailing lists which they are on will
break until the list maintainer can remove that user from their list.
As I recall, this isn't the first list for which this this has happened
in the past couple of months.
Could Moira be changed so that when it is extracting the aliases file,
it won't include users who don't have poboxes in mailing lists? It
seems like the right thing to do.
- Ted
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From: ericding@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 14:36:50 -0400
To: postmaster@MIT.EDU
Cc: "Michael J Farrell" <mfarrell@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Your OLC question about "mail"
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Hi,
there's a user who is not receiving any mail addressed to him:
mfarrell@mit.edu. Typing "hes mfarrell" gives normal results, and
fingering him at athena gives normal information as well. But sending him
mail returns the following message. Could you take a look and get the
problem fixed, and let the user know when it's all set up correctly?
Thanks a lot.
<>< Eric Ding
CSS Student Consultant
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 14:22:50 -0400
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
Message-Id: <9309281822.AA18133@momoney.MIT.EDU>
To: ericding@MIT.EDU
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>>> RCPT To:<mfarrell>
<<< 550 <mfarrell>... User unknown: No such file or directory
550 mfarrell... User unknown
----- Unsent message follows -----
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