UK TMLers, and TMLers in general, Hello!
We have had a rash of TML delivery problems lately. This has been
because the Tektronix->Internet gateway machine was not rewriting the
From:, Sender:, and Resent-From: fields to values palatable to the
outside world. Mail that should have left Tektronix with the address
"[email removed]" ended up leaving with the header addresses
"[email removed]".
Some mail sites and gateways outside Tek look upon these most bogus
headers with terror, Just Say No, and throw it in the trashcan icon as
quickly as they can, sending a copy to the local mail admin dude who
gets irate and sends me a complaint. Other mail transfer programs see
the bad headers, look away in disgust, and forward the mail anyway.
Still others Just Don't Care and send the mail on to the recipient
without a clue that something is rotten.
Anyway, the root cause of the problem, an arcane and slightly wrong
sendmail.cf file at the corporate mail gateway, was band-aided last
night before the digests went out, in a mostly successful attempt to
correct the problem. This problem had been fixed once before, but like
most computer problems, cleverly figured out how to break itself a
second time. When the corporate gateway admin returns from vacation
Monday, he will commit a more official fix and try to make sure it
doesn't break itself again.
Thank you all for your patience. Let the missed-back-issues requests
commence!
James
"Go away, or I shall-a have to-a taunt you a second time"
-- Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
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Traveller Mailing List Administrator James T Perkins @ Tektronix, Inc
[email removed] Beaverton, Oregon, USA
[email removed] "Load Auto/Evade, Beowulf!"