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Re: distribution lists

#277
From: Martin Winter
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 16:44
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In article <00962BA8.91F43840.2305@PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de>, Peter Kobe <system@PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de> writes:
>Sending messages to a distribution list can be a problem, if you
>use the examples given in the VMS MAIL UTILITY MANUAL page 6 and 7.
>I.e if one uses comments in the the lines.

[stuff deleted]

>Return-Path: <system@PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de>
>Received: by PIB1.physik.uni-bonn.de (MX V3.1B) id 2296; Tue, 27 Oct 1992
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
from the Release notes of MX 3.1C:
   4      Bug Fixes

          MX V3.1C provides the following fixes to bugs in
          V3.1B:

          1. MX_MAILSHR was not properly handling comments in
             VMS MAIL distribution files. This has been fixed.

          2. ...

It seems as this error got corrected in MX 3.1C, but I have not tried yet.

Greetings, Martin

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From: winter@vision.rs.ch (Martin Winter)
Subject: Re: distribution lists
Message-ID: <1992Nov5.164449.13906@aragorn.unibe.ch>
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:44:49 GMT
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