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From: nancy@b11.ingr.com (Nancy Buehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Problems with group list syntax
Keywords: group list
Message-ID: <6166@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 11 Oct 89 14:47:48 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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My sendmail program has problems dealing with addresses that have a group
list syntax.  A user at my site is on a distribution list that has a group 
list syntax of the form "listname:;@host.domain".  Messages sent to this 
list are delivered to this user, but then sendmail sends back an "Unable
to deliver mail" error message back to the originator. 
 
After reading (and being confused by) Section 6.2.6 in RFC 822, I thought
that group lists could only have the form "listname:[mailbox];".  Thus,
I don't understand the "@host.domain" part of the list name given above.
 
Sendmail's test mode shows that addresses like "a:b;", "a:b;@c", "a:;@c",
and "a:;" all resolve to a mailer okay.  The user's address in the 
distribution list is correct. 
 
This user is also on other distribution lists that have the form 
"listname@host.domain".  Messages sent to these lists are delivered to 
him okay, and no error messages are generated.
 
The man page mailaddr(7) says that only the form "list:;" is supported. 
To me, this implies that only this form is supported regardless of how
the sendmail.cf file is hacked up.
 
Any revelations on how to handle these group list names?
 
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Nancy Buehmann 			UUCP: ...!uunet!ingr!b11!nancy
Intergraph Corporation		ARPANET: ingr!b11!nancy@uunet.uu.net
Huntsville, Alabama