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RE: Stuck msgs in queue for local channel

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From: Bob Tinkelman
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:51
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> > A dump of the queued msg shows lots of envelope destination addresses
> > of the form node::user.  This surprised me.  Is it an indication that
> > I did something wrong in setting up the list?
>
> I could not say without knowing what you did and how you did the conversion.

The system used to have logicals defined of the form
	$ define /system dis$xxx "@distribution_dir:xxx.dis"
and users would send to mail destination called dis$xxx (without typing an
@-sign).  The distribution files were indexed files with lines of the form
	node::user

We left the files indexed files intact (and thanks, Ned, for the change
that allowed us to access indexed files), removed the logicals, and for
each did:
	$ pmdf forward dis$xxx <file-spec-for-list
	$ mail
	Mail> set forward /user=dis$xxx in%dis$xxx

Would the fact that we used PMDF FORWARD rather than the alias file cause
us problems?
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Subject: RE: Stuck msgs in queue for local channel
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From: Bob Tinkelman <bob@camb.com>
Date: 15 Dec 1992 14:51:21 -0400 (EDT)
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