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From: stew%lhasa@HUCSC.HARVARD.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: mail failures
Message-ID: <8702150114.AA20567@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Sat, 14-Feb-87 19:08:23 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 14 19:08:23 1987
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I hate mailers that silently fail...

On vax1, define a logical name INFO_VAX_READERS as @MAIL_DIST:INFO_VAX.DIS.
Put three or more users into INFO_VAX.DIS.

Log in to vax2, another VMS machine talking to vax1 by decnet.  Send mail
to vax1::info_vax_readers.

On our system, we find that the third and subsequent users listed in the
distribution file do not receive the mail.  The sender is not notified
of any failure.  Accounting shows that the network job has exited with
status=%X100020E4, network partner aborted logical link.

Is there any way to do this that works?