Hi,
I have I-mail 4.03 installed on NT 4.
The general e-mail portion has worked flawlessly for a couple of years. But
recently ran into a problem with the list server.
I currently have three virtual domains configured.
1st is one that was set up with the machinename.domainname1.com
I'm not sure if this is a default or just the person installing it did that.
At any rate, there are no users other than root and aliases of listserv and
postmaster. No one has actually uses any an e-mail address there. There are
no lists there.
2nd is mail.domainname1.com
This is for the mail to/from one domain in the network.
It includes 36 users from an NT domain. It has aliases of postmaster and
root. There are no lsts there.
The 3rd is mail.domainname2.com
This is for mailto/from a second domain on the network.
It includes 5 users. It is also used to send out targeted e-mail
newsletters. It has aliases of:
listname1
listname1-owner
listname2
listname2-owner
listname3
listname3-owner
listserv
owner-listname1
owner-listname2
owner-listname3
postmaster
root
I had successfully set up the first list using the listserver command from
the Start Programs menu and sent out a Newsletter on previous occasions to
around 200 subscribers.
A couple days ago I set up lists 2 & 3. List 1 with about 40 subscribers
and list 2 with about 320. I sent out the initial Newsletters to these
folks on Friday PM. Got the usual few bad e-mail messages, and went home.
As a check, I always include my home e-mail in the lists. On the following
day, while checking my home e-mail, I noticed I'd received 6 copies of list
#3's Newsletter.
I went back to the office and dicovered that everyone on the list was
receiving multiple copies. The server seemed to be repeatedly mailing out
just that one list every 4 hours. So I deleted the list (via the listserver
view box) as a way to stop that redundancy. I crafted an apology letter and
set up the list again and sent the letter. The server immediately sent out
3 copies of the letter to everyone on that list. Deleted it again via the
listserver view box.
So, I've done some investigating to try to figure out what was going on.
Noticed that all of the lists appeared under all of the domains via the
Imail administrator view (vs. the Listserver view). I proceeded to remove
the lists from virtual domains 1 & 2 whilst leaving virtual domain 3 as it
is above.
Now, none of the lists appears in the listserver view. In addition, the
users and addresses have all gone, though the lists still appear (as above)
in the I-mail administrator view.
So, my question is, what is the correct way to configure these lists.
Should I be doing it via the listserver command view, or in Imail
administrator view? Why did the one list go recundant on me? How do I
prevent that from occuring again? (In this case a 3rd time would not be
charming at all).
Thanks to anyone who can answer these questions for me.
Richard F. Schriever, Ph.D.(ABD)
Director - Internetworking
GreenLight Communications
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