Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!SPCVXA!TERRY From: TERRY@SPCVXA (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l Subject: RE: errors-to field Message-ID: Date: 3 Feb 90 05:08:00 GMT Sender: PMDF Distribution List Reply-To: PMDF Distribution List Lines: 36 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Errors-to: postmast@YMIR.BITNET X-Organization: St. Peter's College, US X-Envelope-to: PMDF-L@IRLEARN.BITNET X-VMS-To: IN%"DMPM@DUKEMC.BITNET" X-VMS-Cc: IN%"ipmdf@ymir",TERRY Comments: Warning -- RSCS tag indicates an origin of POSTMAST@YMIR X-To: DMPM@DUKEMC, ipmdf@YMIR > What exactly is the errors-to field supposed to be for? It is used to indicate that errors in delivering your message should be reported to a different address than the message originated from. It isn't necessary when the sender is a user, since s/he can process the error no- tice without difficulty. It is primarily used by server accounts to in- dicate that errors should be sent to a real person, rather than back to the server (which might either discard it, or, if the server was for a mailing list, might forward a copy of the error message to _everybody_ on the list). > This works fine, but does cause trouble now and then. I now have disabled > this due to the problems. Below is a example of mail sent out and > returned due to this problem. Soon as I deassigned the logical > pmdf_errors_to this problem went away. The problem is that your value for this field is not "fully qualified". In netspeak, this means that it needs a trailing domain (or pseudo-domain) spec- ification. Compare the IPMDF errors-to with yours: > Errors-to: postmast@YMIR.BITNET > Errors-to: DMPM@DUKEMC I don't know why you aren't getting a fully qualified name out, although I suspect that the "official host name", either global or channel-specific, is DUKEMC rather than DUKEMC.BITNET. The relevant portions of my PMDF.CNF are shown below as an example: ! PMDF.CNF - A configuration file for PMDF. SPCVXA $U@SPCVXA.BITNET SPCVXA.BITNET $U@SPCVXA.BITNET l SPCVXA.BITNET Terry Kennedy St. Peter's College