Problems with .forward file.

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3 total messages Started by Neil Dixon Fri, 02 Dec 1988 16:49

#3000

Author: Neil Dixon
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1988 16:49

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I've discovered the following problem with sendmail on our HP800 series
machines running HP-UX 2.1 (SysV'ish).  If two or more users have
identical .forward files (i.e.  for piping into the slocal prog of MH),
then mail to those users will only ever reach the first recipient.  Mail
for the other recipients is thrown away as 'duplicate suppressed'.  Is
this a known problem in other implementations, or do I need a devious
trick in the config file?

Regards,
	Neil Dixon.
		

Neil Dixon <neil@yc.estec.nl> UUCP:  ...!mcvax!esatst!neil,
Thermal Control & Life Support Division (YCV) 
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC),
Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Re: Problems with .forward file.

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Author: Frank Wales
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1988 11:43

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In article <21655.8812021649@esatst.yc.estec.nl> neil%yc1@mcvax.uucp
 (Neil Dixon) writes:
>I've discovered the following problem with sendmail on our HP800 series
>machines running HP-UX 2.1 (SysV'ish).  If two or more users have
>identical .forward files (i.e.  for piping into the slocal prog of MH),
>then mail to those users will only ever reach the first recipient.  Mail
>for the other recipients is thrown away as 'duplicate suppressed'.  Is
>this a known problem in other implementations, or do I need a devious
>trick in the config file?

I reported this problem to HP's UK Response Centre a couple of months
ago, and the enquiry became a formal bug report which should now have
gone back to division.  The workaround we currently use is to have
.forward refer to individual script files which in turn invoke the
required commands -- inelegant, but it works for now.  Whether it's
a problem with non-HP-UX machines, I can't say, but HP seem to have 
accepted that sendmail shouldn't behave this way; if it were something
which could be reconfigured, I think they'd have said.

--
Frank Wales, Systems Administrator,  [frank@zen.co.uk<->mcvax!zen.co.uk!frank]
Zengrange Ltd., Greenfield Rd., Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x217

Re: Problems with .forward file.

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Author: Craig F. Everhart
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1988 15:19

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You need a devious trick in the .forward files; make the program being executed
take the receiving username as one of its arguments.  The invocation strings
will be different, and the addresses won't look like duplicates.

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