On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Nick Simicich wrote: > It does seem odd to me that you were even seeing the mail sent to these > incorrect adddresses. Gosh, most mail systems tend to just bounce that > mail without human intervention. What mail system were you using? Some > hack that funnelled all mail to some domain to a particular mailbox? A 'hack' it may be, but a very common one for many hosted domains on ISPs. E.g. maybe I get 'mydomain.com' hosted on my ISP, and they direct all mail for 'mydomain.com' to my e-mail box. It's not even that much of a hack; most mail servers allow it as a standard feature, e.g. something like a line in sendmail's mailertable reading: mydomain.com local:user To redirect all mydomain.com mail to 'user@<isp>'. This makes it difficult to bounce mail since, technically, there -are- no nonexistant addresses. It's also a royal pain when people ask about setting up listservers under a configuration like this, since it involves teaching them Procmail, usually. :) This is probably why he had the problem he did.
