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From: liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: spurious inews errors
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.204831.2326@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 4 Jan 90 20:48:31 GMT
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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I'm running Cnews -- patch date 23-Jun-1989 which I know is old, but
I'm having a problem and would like to know if it has been fixed before
trying to download patches, etc.

One of my users keeps getting errors when posting to a moderated group.
It appears that the article gets mailed out fine, but he always gets
something like the following in the mail:

	Return-Path: alex
	Return-Path: <alex>
	Received: by grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (4.0/SMI-4.0)
		id AA27720; Thu, 4 Jan 90 01:42:12 PST
	Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 01:42:12 PST
	From: Alex Pournelle <alex>
	Message-Id: <9001040942.AA27720@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> To:
	alex Subject: follow failed

	/local/bin/inews: mailing your article to
		elroy!ames!comp-sys-ibm-pc-digest

	Your response has been saved in ~/dead.letter

	Your article/letter follows:
	Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest
	Subject: Re: non-IBM ESDI disks on a PS/2 model 60
	References: <9001032308.AA15967@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>

	[...]

The uucp logs show that the mail was actually sent out.  The fact that
it bounces to dead.letter makes me think that the problem is actually
in mail.  It looks like it is calling /bin/mail (under SunOS 4.0.3,
same as /usr/bin).

Any ideas?
-- 
		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us
					ames!elroy!grian!liz
"God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b