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Alias problem on Suns

#8789
From: Roxanne Brunskill
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 16:49
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We are running VM 5.32.L (beta) on Sun SparcStation1/1+ with Sun OS
4.1.2.

(We run the same version of VM on DecStation 3100s and an HP 9000/827
and they don't have this problem.)

The problem:

When you mail to an alias on the sun, the mail bounces back with an
error similar to the following: 

------------------------------Begin Bounced Mail-------------------------------

From: Mailer-Daemon (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
To: rbrunski
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:45:28 MST

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

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <rbrunski>
Received: by madelaine.datap.ca (4.1/SMI-4.1)
	id AA09373; Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:45:28 MST
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:45:28 MST
From: rbrunski (Roxanne Brunskill)
Message-Id: <9303251645.AA09373@madelaine.datap.ca>
To: rutley
Subject: testing

------------------------------End Bounced Mail-------------------------------

But the mail is delivered fine to the alias and I (as Postmaster)
don't receive any mail about bounced messages.

Have you encountered this problem?  I've talked to Sun, but they had
no idea.  Aliases work fine if you use mailtool or mail on the command
line.  It seems to be some strange interaction between VM and the Sun.

Thanks.

--
Roxanne Brunskill  rbrunski@datap.ca	Sandwell Inc. Datap Systems Division
+1 (403) 237-9500			Tenth Floor, 940 Sixth Avenue SW 
					Calgary, Alberta 
					T2P 3T1
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