[73] in Moira
[marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: Oops]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Apr 4 16:03:11 1990
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 90 16:02:44 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: bug-moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
There are several bugs here. One of them is with the mailer, which
said "User unknown" for staff, even though all of the staff got the
mailing. You can't fix that, obviously (unless you want to work on
sendmail :-). The other is that moira should never have put
staff_misc into the aliases file, because it's not a mailing list.
jik
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Subject: Oops
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Usmail: Marc Horowitz, 3 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617)225-6447
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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From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
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To: marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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>>> 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
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