COMPUTER: minor change to Alcor mail configuration
Systems and Software Group
mail relays, Clyde and Newsflash) on Monday. The vast majority of
users should not notice any difference.
If you are doing automated mail processing on Alcor and you have
written your own "recipes", then you should be aware that mail from
Alcor to Alcor may not necessarily have the hostname appended to the
addresses in the header. If you are matching "full" addresses, your
recipes may fail to trigger. If that happens, add a match for just
the username portion.
I'll gladly answer questions on concordia.dept.iits.help.
Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett, Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal H3G 1M8
an...@alcor.concordia.ca +1 514 848-7606
Systems and Software Group
>
> I might be overlooking something, but I think this has the potential to
> cause significant problems for a significant number of users. I just
> sent myself mail from alcor to alcor (with mailx) and did indeed
> receive it with the header:
>
> From: Rich Lafferty <rich>
>
> I then used Eudora on a Mac to download the message, and attempted to
> reply. It tried to reply to <rich> which Clyde rejected.
You are quite correct. I forgot about the POP users on Alcor who do
not use Alcor as their SMTP server, and we do indeed have quite a few
of those, especially among the folks who use an ISP for dial-up
services.
Sigh! *kick self* I have backed out of that change on Alcor only --
the other two hosts do not provide POP service, so this is not an issue
for them.
> Pardon the CC; I figured this important enough to bring it to your
> attention directly.
It was indeed; thank you very much for bringing my mistake to my
attention!
Anne.
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Ms. Anne Bennett an...@alcor.concordia.ca +1 514 848-7606
Senior Analyst, IITS, Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada H3G 1M8