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SUMMARY:
In VM, whenever I mail to a recipient which is an alias
in the system aliases file, one message is returned to me saying the
user is unknown, but the actual message get delivered.

THE DETAILS:
    VM version 4.41
    GNU Emacs 18.57.2 of Fri Apr 26 1991 on amadeus (berkeley-unix)
    SunOS 4.1.1
    From a client which mounts /var/spool/mail from its NFS server
    Client does not run sendmail
    Client has standard, off-the-tape, sendmail.subsidiary.cf
    NIS is running properly
    Another machine at the site, running the same emacs binary but
	with a different NFS, mail, and YP server, exhibit the same
	problem.
    When mailing from the NFS server instead of from a client, no
	error occurs.

The actual error message:

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>From gamin Mon May 27 23:17:47 1991
Return-Path: <Mailer-Daemon>
Received: by pellan.ireq-robot (4.1/SMI-4.1)
	id AC10604; Mon, 27 May 91 23:17:42 EDT
Message-Id: <9105280317.AC10604@pellan.ireq-robot>
From: Mailer-Daemon (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
To: gamin
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
Date: Mon, 27 May 91 23:17:42 EDT

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 mboyer... User unknown
550 Postmaster... User unknown

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <gamin>
Received: by pellan.ireq-robot (4.1/SMI-4.1)
	id AA10604; Mon, 27 May 91 23:17:42 EDT
Date: Mon, 27 May 91 23:17:42 EDT
From: gamin (Martin Boyer)
Message-Id: <9105280317.AA10604@pellan.ireq-robot>
To: mboyer
Subject: Test

This is a test.

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SPECULATIONS:
The error message comes directly from the client, even though it is
not supposed to do actual delivery, but rather pass the message
directly to the mail server.  Somehow (how?) the message is passed to
the server (I verified this: it does go to the server) either in
parallel or as a result of the error and is then properly delivered.


QUESTION:
Since this is a common configuration, there must be a way around this.
Can anobody help?

Thanks,

Martin

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Martin Boyer                            mboyer@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca
Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec    mboyer@ireq-robot.uucp
Varennes, QC, Canada   J3X 1S1
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